Author Profile

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar is a children's author who has previously won the newbery medal. He bases his characters on himself and the people he know's. Some of the books he has written are Holes, Small Steps, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom.

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
by Louis Sachar

ISBN: 0380731487

This book contains thirty short tales about the student's and faculty at Wayside School. Wayside school is a school that was built sideways. Instead of being a one story building with thirty classrooms the builder made it thirty stories high with one class on each story. These stories are silly and appeal to a child's sense of humor. For example, in the story of the mean teacher Mrs. Gorf she wiggles her ears and turns her students into apples. In an ironic turn of events she ends up turning herself into an apple and gets eaten by one of the other teachers.

Wayside School is Falling Down
By Louis Sachar

ISBN: 0688078680

Thirty silly stories from Wayside School. I used to read these stories as a kid and I loved them. They are goofy and imaginative. In one of th stories a student named Sherie bring a homeless person to school for show and tell. In another tale it tells about the yard man Louis carrying a computer up thirty stories to get to Mrs. Jewis' class just so she can throw it out the window to teach about gravity.