My Weirder School Books in Order

Winning a contest earns A.J. and his third-grade classmates a trip to the zoo. There they meet Miss Child, a zookeeper who believes animals are smarter than people and whose unusual habits make their outing increasingly unpredictable.

A.J. thinks Ella Mentry School's technology expert is embarrassing despite his talent for fixing equipment and inventing gadgets. When a power failure throws the school into confusion, the children must depend on Mr. Harrison's unusual ideas for help.

Reporter Mrs. Lilly visits Ella Mentry School for Career Day and helps the children create their own newspaper. A.J. and his friends embrace investigative reporting, but dramatic headlines and questionable facts turn their discoveries into trouble for the adults.

A.J. and Andrea compete to become their third-grade class president as Election Day approaches. Mayor Hubble visits Ella Mentry School to explain politics, turning their rivalry into a campaign full of promises, strategies, and awkward attempts to win votes.

With Mr. Granite ill, A.J. and his classmates look forward to a week with a substitute. Miss Kraft arrives wearing a clown costume and talking through puppets, making her magic tricks and constant cheerfulness another classroom mystery.

Ella Mentry School's groundskeeper has ideas that go far beyond trimming bushes and mowing grass. As Mr. Burke proposes a corn maze and mower races, strange crop circles and something buried beneath the monkey bars give the children questions to investigate.

A reality television crew arrives to film Ella Mentry School, where teachers and students compete for a prize. Director Ms. Beard asks everyone to behave normally, but the chance to become a star brings out even stranger behavior.

Professor Dr. Nicholas visits A.J.'s class to improve its history scores, but prefers unusual subjects such as toilets to traditional facts. Her homemade time machine offers a different kind of field trip, with the risk of getting stranded in time.

Alexia's mother takes charge of Ella Mentry School's fundraiser to buy new playground equipment. Her increasingly strange sales ideas involve the teachers and children, but pushing the campaign too far threatens consequences bigger than a disappointing fundraising total.

Low reading scores bring a new helper to Ella Mentry School: Miss Klute, a therapy dog. A.J. and his friends become eager to read aloud to her, but their attempt to give the dog a break leads to trouble.

Principal Klutz hires Mr. Jack to teach self-defense at Ella Mentry School. The instructor is more interested in admiring himself and acting like a movie hero, leaving A.J. and the gang wondering how they are supposed to learn anything.

Principal Klutz hires talent coach Mrs. Lane to prepare the children for Ella Mentry School's show. A.J. struggles to identify his own talent, while the coach's desire for the spotlight threatens to overshadow the students she is supposed to help.