The Homework Machine

Dan Gutman

Simon and Schuster, Jun 26, 2007 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 176 pages

Doing homework becomes a thing of the past!

Meet the D Squad, a foursome of fifth graders at the Grand Canyon School made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker. They are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code-named Belch, is doing their homework for them, they start spending a lot of time together, attracting a lot of attention. And attention is exactly what you don't want when you are keeping a secret.

Before long, things start to get out of control, and Belch becomes much more powerful than they ever imagined. Now the kids are in a race against their own creation, and the loser could end up in jail...or worse!

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 62
• Section 3: 147
• Section 4: 150

About the author

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Homework Machine; Homework machine
• Author: Dan Gutman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2007
• ISBN: 0689876793, 9780689876790
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Computers & Digital Media; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / School & Education; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Values & Virtues; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Dating & Relationships