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Title:  Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Author:  Louis Sachar
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Reviewer:   Lori H. '11

Instead of the school being thirty floors across, it was built thirty floors high. All kinds of crazy things happen especially on the thirteenth floor. You will meet Mrs.Gorf, the meanest teacher of them all. She turns her class into apples. The book describes different people and their personalities and it gets crazier by the second. I enjoyed this book because it was really funny. It had things that made you want to laugh out loud while you're reading the book in school.

Winter 2004

 
Reviewer:   Matt S. '10

The name of the book I read is Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar.  This was a hilarious book about a school that is thirty stories high.  Each chapter talks about a different kid and there is a different problem that happens to the kid every day.  I really like this book and it is one of the funniest books I ever read.  I recommend this book to everyone.  Even if you don’t like funny stories, this book will make you like them.  Have a good time reading.

Spring 2003

 
Reviewer:  Mia J. '10

One of the books I read over the summer was SIDEWAYS STORIES STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL. This book is about a classroom on the top floor of Wayside School (Oh, did I tell you that the school was built sideways and that there is 30 floors without an elevator?). This book tells about the kids in the top floor classroom, and all the weird and funny things that happen to them. One day a new kid joins the thirtieth floor classroom of Wayside School. This kid Sammy acts very suspicious.

What's the truth about Sammy? What's in store for Wayside School's thirtieth floor classroom on Halloween?  Read this book to find out the secret of Sammy.

I love this book because its a real page turner--you won't be able to put it down!

Fall 2002

Reviewer:  Todd C. '09

Wayside School is thirty stories high with one classroom on each story.  It should have been built  as one story with thirty classrooms on that one story.  In this collection of funny stories, you meet many characters, including the students from the 30th floor and Mrs. Gorf, the meanest teacher in the whole wide world.  All of these stories are very funny and entertaining. I recommend this book to people who like funny stories with outrageous problems.

Spring 2002

Reviewer:   Jon G. ‘09

This book is the first in a series of books about Wayside School. I have already read two others in the series, but I did not enjoy this book as much.

There is no story line at all. Each chapter is about a teacher or a student in the class and about their routines at school. This book was not that interesting to me because it had no plot or climax.  It took me less than an hour to read this very short book.  The other Wayside books, such as Wayside School is Falling Down, were better

Spring 2002

Reviewer:   Ben F. ‘08

The story, The Wayside School is about students in a classroom and what they are like. There are 30 students in the book to learn about. My favorite student is Dameon because one time he had to run down 30 flights of stairs to ask Louis, the yard teacher, if he wanted to watch a movie with class. Louis said, "What kind of movie?" Dameon ran up the 30 flights of stairs to ask the teacher what kind of movie. The teacher said, "Does he want to know the name of the movie of what it’s about?"

Dameon ran down the stairs to ask Louis if he wanted to know the name of the movie or what it is about. Louis said, "He wanted to know the name of the movie."

Dameon ran up the 30 flights of stairs to ask the teacher the name of the movie. It was called Turtles. Dameon ran down again to tell Louis the name of the movie. Dameon said, "The movie is called Turtles." Louis said that he didn’t want to see that movie. Dameon ran up the stairs one more time and said that Louis didn’t want to see the movie. By the time Dameon got back to the classroom the movie was over.

Read The Wayside School to find out more about Dameon and his classmates.

Spring 2001


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