Henry and I have been reading the "Weird School" book series. We had the first one Miss Daisy is Crazy for a long time and tried to start reading it a few years ago but Henry wasn't interested. Since I wanted him to remember that reading was fun (before he went back to school), I started reading to him at bedtime a couple weeks ago.

These books are by Dan Gutman, and they are really funny. We've read books 1 through 7 now. They are a little below Henry's reading level (easy chapter books) but reading is reading. We can read one of these in under an hour.

The books are told from the pov of the main character, a 2nd grade boy named A.J. He hates school and is pretty opinionated about everything. In Miss Daisy is Crazy, his new teacher tells him that she also hates school and that she doesn't understand math, so the kids in her class (including A.J.) keep trying to teach her how to do math. She does the same thing with reading and spelling. In one of the sequels, A.J. says that ever since they taught Miss Daisy math, she was just crazy about it.

There is a girl in his class "who thinks she knows everything", and he makes no secret that he doesn't like her. But in almost all the books, he and his friends end up working with her to solve some silly dilemma.

In my favorite book so far, Mrs. Cooney is Looney, A.J. pretends to be sick for two reasons--first, to get out of trying to learn multiplication and second (and much more importantly), he thinks Mrs. Cooney the school nurse is beautiful. He wants to marry her.

Books series are not easy to find with boys as the main characters, and these are really cute and silly. I highly recommend them.

The only drawback is that the book is told from a 2nd grade boy's perspective so he says things like, "She thinks she's so smart. Why can't a piano fall on her head?" and "I hate school. I hate math. I hate reading. Why can't we just play football all day?" It is reminiscent of Junie B. Jones.