Sideways Stories from Wayside School

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Don't miss the fun at Wayside School--an elementary school with supernatural elements--built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high.

Children's Literature

Sachar takes kids to that very peculiar school built with thirty classrooms on top of each other, and tells stories about the very strange teachers and students. Mrs. Gorf, who turned students into apples, came to a very bad end. She was replace by Mrs. Jewls, who has a penchant for writing kids' names under the Discipline heading on the blackboard. Within many of these stories are some gems of truth, such as the story of D.J., whose smile is contagious and who states at the end when pressed for a reason for his smiling state, "You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy." Others in the series are Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger and Wayside School is Falling Down. 1998 (orig.

LOUIS SACHAR made history with Holes, which won every major children’s book award and was turned into a movie. He lives in Austin, Texas.