Dan Gutman
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Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a visa mer full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Dan Gutman
2 Titles (My Weird School Special: Mr. Jack is a Maniac & Deck the Halls We're Off the Walls) (2014) 68 exemplar
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Mr. Corbett Is in Orbit! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 1) (2021) 61 exemplar
My Weird School Special: We’re Red, Weird, and Blue! What Can We Do? (My Weird School Special, 7) (2020) 39 exemplar
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Get a Grip! We're on a Trip! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 2) (2022) 35 exemplar
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Dorks in New York! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 3) (2023) 10 exemplar
My Weird School 8-Volume Boxed Set: 1 thru 8: Miss Daisy Is Crazy / Mr. Klutz Is Nuts / Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy / Ms.… (2005) 3 exemplar
Coolest Chapter Books for Kids Sample 3 exemplar
My Weird School Christmas 3-Book Box Set: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!, Dr. Carbles Is Losing His Marbles!, Deck the Halls,… (2015) 3 exemplar
My Weird School Series (8): Mr. Louie Is Screwy; Mrs. Yonkers Is Bonkers; Mrs. Macky Is Wacky; Mrs. Kormel Is Not… (2002) 2 exemplar
My Weird School Daze (Set of 6) Mrs. Dole; Mr. Sunny; Officer Spence; Mrs. Jafee; Dr. Brad; Miss Laney (2010) 2 exemplar
My Weird School Summer Reading 3-Book Box Set: Bummer in the Summer!, Mr. Sunny Is Funny!, and Miss Blake Is a Flake! (2020) 2 exemplar
Daring to Dream 1 exemplar
I Didn't Know You Could Do That With a Computer: Practical Unusual and Wonderful Software You Can Buy (1986) 1 exemplar
My Weird School Fast Facts Sports/Geography 1 exemplar
Personal Tech: My Computer Runneth Over 1 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1955-10-19
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA
Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA - Utbildning
- Rutgers University
Vailsburg High School - Yrken
- children's book author
magazine editor
columnist
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Statistik
- Verk
- 211
- Även av
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 42,444
- Popularitet
- #403
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 406
- ISBN
- 2,144
- Språk
- 9
- Favoritmärkt
- 4
Premise/plot: This is a "nonfiction" book. The framework is fiction, a fictional brother and sister duo battle it out to see who knows more about the Beatles. The information they're sharing is factual and nonfiction.
The book talks about the band, The Beatles. It talks about the four members of the band, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Each Beatle gets his own personal biographical chapter. Other chapters talk more about the band as a whole--chronicling the timeline of the band.
My thoughts: Did I learn anything new? No. Is that surprising? Not really if you KNOW me. I liked this one. I did. I was slightly annoyed by the fictional framework. However, I do appreciate that this one focused on the band AND the individuals within the band. I do think the Beatles are best introduced by their music. I know this is impossible to do in a book. Or perhaps not impossible, challenging enough, but the best way to get to know the Beatles is by....listening to the Beatles. Without that immediate connection to the music itself, I'm not sure how memorable or impactful or interesting or entertaining the book is.… (mer)