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Sideways Stories From Wayside School (book)
''Sideways Stories from Wayside School'' is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the '' Wayside School'' series. The novel was later adapted into a Nickelodeon television series, '' Wayside''. Setting The story takes place in the fictional Wayside School, a school that was meant to be built one story tall with thirty classrooms all in a row, but was instead built thirty stories tall with a single classroom on each floor, save for the nonexistent nineteenth story. The book is primarily set in Mrs. Jewls' class, which is located on the thirtieth story of Wayside School, and each chapter focuses on a different student or teacher at the school. Chapters ; 1. Mrs. Gorf: This chapter introduces the classroom on Wayside School's 30th floor. Their teacher, a strict woman named Mrs. Gorf, turns her students into apples if they misbehave even slightly, or miss a question on a test. At times, Louis the yard teacher visits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar ( ; born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the ''Wayside School'' series and the novel ''Holes''. ''Holes'' won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature"National Book Awards – 1998" . Retrieved January 26, 2012. (With acceptance speech by Sachar.) and the 1999 for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |