Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Joe asks why he has to go to school, and Mrs. Jewls reassures him that he will wake up one day and suddenly be able to count. After recess, other students make fun of Joe, but Mrs. Jewls holds him back during recess and attempts to teach him, but finds herself unable to do so. Joe Joe is a student who cannot count properly, but always ends up at the correct answer anyway. Jewls begins teaching normally, though the students liked her original idea better. After the students convince her that they are not monkeys, Mrs. When she first sees her students, she figures that they must be monkeys, because she has never seen children so cute. In the novel Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, it's revealed that Mrs. Louis then comes in, sees the apple, and-unaware that it is actually Mrs. Gorf, and she turns herself into an apple. She gets angry and tries to turn them into apples again, but Jenny holds up a mirror in front of Mrs. She eventually turns all the students into apples, but the students, led by Todd, force her to change them back into humans. Gorf must be an excellent teacher if she has so many apples. At times, Louis the yard teacher visits and assumes that Mrs. Gorf, turns her students into apples if they misbehave even slightly, or miss a question on a test.

Gorf This chapter introduces the classroom on Wayside School's 30th floor. 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.Ĭhapters 1. 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 novel was later adapted into a Nickelodeon television series, Wayside. 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.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar