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    My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports
    Ebook135 pages52 minutes

    My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports

    By Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot

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    Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School!

    Did you know that the only sport that’s been played on the moon is golf? Did you know that an NFL quarterback once threw a touchdown pass to himself?!

    Learn more weird-but-true sports facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations.

    Whether you’re a kid who wants to know more about sports or just someone who is curious why Major League Baseball umpires have to wear black underwear, this is the book for you!

    With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9780062306197
    My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports
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    Dan Gutman

    Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 35 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com.

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      I actually received a ARC [Advance Reader’s Copy] for My Weird School Fast Facts about Geography through a Goodreads giveaway in return for my honest opinion.What made this ARC particularly interesting is that it was a FLIP ARC, meaning if you turned the book over you had a second ARC. The second ARC dealt with Sports.Unless you’re truly interest in knowing facts concerning a specific topic, fact books can be extremely boring to read. This can be especially true when it comes to intended audience of readers, children between the ages of 6 – 10.Taking two characters, A.J. and Andrea from his My Weird School Series of books Dan Gutman has written a skillfully crafted dialogue in which facts about Sports flow smoothly from one fact into another. The illustrations and photos add to the educational experience for its young readers for which I’ve given this book 5 STARS.

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    My Weird School Fast Facts - Dan Gutman

    Dedication

    To Emma

    Contents

    Dedication

    The Beginning

    Chapter 1: Baseball

    Chapter 2: Football

    Chapter 3: Soccer

    Chapter 4: Basketball

    Chapter 5: Hockey

    Chapter 6: Golf

    Chapter 7: Automobile Racing

    Chapter 8: The Need for Speed

    Chapter 9: Other Sports

    Chapter 10: The Olympics

    Chapter 11: More Weird Sports Facts

    The Ending

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    About the Author and Illustrator

    Books by Dan Gutman

    Credits

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    Copyright

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    My name is Professor A.J. and I love sports.

    Ewww, I said it! I said the L word! Ugh, disgusting. I think I have to go take a shower.

    But the truth is that sports are the only things in the history of the world that I truly love. How come? In sports like football and hockey, you get to knock guys on their butts. In baseball you get to slide into home plate and knock the catcher on his butt. In basketball you get to dribble the ball down the court, charge in for a lay-up, and knock the defender on his butt. Knocking guys on their butts is fun.

    Well, not as much fun as eating candy, but still fun.

    The other cool thing about sports is counting how many times the players spit. Those guys spit all the time! I like to watch games on TV and keep track to see which team spits the most. That’s just as much fun as keeping the real score.

    Now just wait one gosh-darned minute there, Arlo!

    Oh no! It’s Andrea Young, this annoying girl in my class with curly brown hair. She calls me by my real name because she knows I don’t like it.

    Yes, my name is Andrea, and I love sports, too. But knocking people down is mean, and dangerous. And spitting in public is disgusting.

    I’ll tell you what I love about sports. It’s the mystery of not knowing how a game is going to end. When you go to the movies, you can usually tell in the first five minutes exactly how the story is going to end. The good guy’s going to win. The bad guy’s going to lose. The man and the lady are going to fall in love. It’s so predictable. But in sports you never know for sure who’s going to win until the game is over. That’s what I love about sports. It’s a big mystery.

    Just ignore her. Andrea thinks she is so smart. She knows nothing about sports. Why can’t a truck full of bowling balls fall on her head?

    I, Professor A.J., will tell you everything you need to know about sports. For instance, did you know that the first sports were played by cavemen?

    It’s true! You see, back in caveman days a million hundred years ago, there was this guy named Ug. He came out of his cave one day with a club in his hand. He was going to go kill a dinosaur so he could have something to eat for dinner. But the next thing that happened was that some other caveman threw a rock at him for no reason. What a jerk, right?

    So anyway, Ug took his club, swung it at the rock, and whacked it over the fence even though they didn’t have fences in those days.

    And that’s how baseball was invented.

    You made all that stuff up, didn’t you, Arlo?

    Well, yeah. But I do know a lot of true stuff about sports, too. True, weird stuff. So if you want to know all that true, weird stuff, there’s just one thing you have to do. Turn the page!

    Hey, we’re not going to do everything for you.

    Yours truly,

    Professor A.J.

    (the professor of awesomeness)

    Andrea Young (I’m in the gifted and talented program.)

    Some people have no luck at all. During a game in 1957, Richie Ashburn of the Phillies hit a foul ball that flew into the stands and hit a lady named Alice Roth in the head. It

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