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A collection of 50 hilarious stories, each filled with brainteasers, designed to painlessly teach math skills. ... Read more

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Interesting Book
The book that I have read is called Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School.The autor and the publisher of this book are Louis Sachar and Scholastic.What I like most in this book is the logical questions.
The questions which have mentioned in this book is about mathematics and logical thinking.It really suitable for me whom I am a science student.
It makes me think very deeply on the questions and improve my logical thinking a lot!
I would highly recommend to all of my friends and I would read it more.

Logic challenge!
This is a wonderful extra for a bright and mathematically-minded kid. It's silly, it's fun, and it hones the logic circuits. It is actually a cleverly disguised introduction to the concept of mathematical variables. Some of the puzzles are complex enough to engage most adults as well.

Jennifer's book review
I thought the book was really fuuny and the auther had a big imagination. I liked how the kids could be animals at a point and then be apples and then be kids again. I thought the book was really funny and I would have given it more than 5 stars but 5 is the hightest amount. The book was a really good fantasy and I really enjoyed it. o liked it so much I read it 3 more times. I would recamend this book to anyone who enjoy's a good lagh while reading!

It was wacky, yet it kept your brain working!
I thought the book was entertaining, and kept my mind thinking for hours at a time. This book is a great boredom buster!

It was an okay book
I'd give this three and a half, but Amazon doesn't offer that. It was funny and weird, but I wanted more story and less math problems (I don't really like math). All in all, it was okay. Try it if you like math and wacky problems, but otherwise don't bother. ... Read more

Book Description

There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.

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totaly cool book
Sideways Stories From Wayside School

This book talks about a school that was made wrong so all kinds of bad things are happening. The main character is well there isn't a main character. Because there are 31 kids and every chapter there is a character. This story is set in a school that was made wrong. This book's genre is fiction because it is so non-believing. The author did a pretty good job because he made it so funny and so entertaining. The author's style is to entertain and to be funny.
What I felt about the book is excitement and surprising and felt like reading more. I would recommend this book to every one of my friends. And also to my mother my sister and maybe to every cousin I have. Truly I would like every one to read it. I think that people would love to buy this book for their kids so just try it. Your kids will love it guaranteed. Or also see more Luis Sachar just like "Holes". That's another book by Luis Sachar. No other book can possibly be better than this one.

This story will make your head burst out laughing
This book is the king of comedy books.I love the way louis sacher writes these books.If you want more laughter read the book by Louis Sacher a boy in the girls bathroom.my teacher read it to our class and we were laughing so hard.I have read it so many times it is hard to count.realy!Me and my next door neighbor talk about it so much. I've read all three main books they are sideways stories from Wayside school, Wayside school is falling down, and Wayside school gets a little stranger.I own those books to.If you agree with me e-mail me.

Memories
This book brings back memories. I used to read it all of the time when I was a child. I would check it out from my school's library almost every chance I got. I had forgotten about this book, because it has been a while since I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. I'm 22 now. I ran across it while surfing the net and the memories started flooding back. I think that any child would love to read this book and it will become one of their favorites.

Awkward but a Great Story!
When I first saw the book in my school's library, I wanted to check out the book right away! But at the beginning I thought it was going to be a story that doesn't make sense very much because a few words were upside-down. Until I kept on reading the story was absolutely awesome! It's about a school that was built sideways but I'm not going to take away the suprises. Just read the book and you'll be very amazed.
(reviewed by AV and a little help from my dad)

A funny, modivational collection...
I recently dug this book out from beneath a lot of my childhood stuff. My dad read it to me when I was just a little kid; at 18, I just reread it, and enjoyed it as much, if not more so--because now I could read between the lines.

Thirty chapters. Each one is like a fable--an entertaining story, a nugget of truth woven into the fabric of each one. Peer pressure, politeness, standing up for yourself...sometimes the lessons are direct, sometimes they are subtle. Maybe kids won't understand them exactly, but they'll certainly remember the stories and remember the lessons thus.

The story:

There is something very wrong with Wayside School. It was built sideways--instead of one story with 30 rooms, is has 30 stories and one room per story. No nineteenth story, though, meaning that Miss Zarves, who teaches there, doesn't exist, either.

At Wayside, students have the tendency to get turned into apples; those pesky dead rats, who live in the basement, are always trying to get into class; sleeping through class is considered educational; turning the lights on and off is a task not just anyone can do; you can help yourself to ice cream with the flavor of your fellow students, but please refrain from biting your classmates; the lunch lady just can't ruin milk, no matter how hard she tries; mosquito bites are great for counting purposes; your two missing teeth are the best in the whole world, as are the hat you aren't wearing and the joke you didn't tell; only being able to read upside down ain't much of a problem, after all; where toes cost a nickel apiece, unless they're little runts; trading names consists of spinning around really fast until you don't know who's who; if two plus two doesn't equal four, watch out; and where you need a reason to be sad, but not to be happy.

"Sideways Stories From Wayside School" by Lous Sachar is a classic. Buy it, for your kid, your sibling, your niece/nephew, or yourself. It's entertaing for all ages, and just might help its reader become a better person. ... Read more

Book Description

The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever.

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Wayside School is Falling Down
Wayside School is Falling Down is a very good book if you like funny books. But you don't want to know about Mrs. Gorf or Mr. Gorf because they are very mean. There is not a nineteenth story . Mrs. Jewls is the nicest teacher, at least that is what they think. They said inside of a good teacher there is also a bad teacher. Never go into the basement because they think there are ghosts and people are in there.
This is why I think you should read it.

The Best Book I've Read This Year
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar is a very interesting book about kids and the problems they have at school, such as a child bringing in a hobo for show and tell, and having a thirty stories high building instead of thirty classrooms next to each other! These are only two of the problems children at Wayside school face. So if you like adventures this book is right for you.
I really liked this book because every time I read it I would just crack up because it was so funny. Unfortunately this book is really short. Also it's more child-like than I had expected. .....

Wayside school is falling down By louis sachar
I loved this book .... Especially when you read about Miss Zarves on the 19th story. well you know. You will love this book!

Hilarious!
This prequel to Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger is just as hilarious as its sequel. The Wayside books are hilarious books, and I strongly urge children to read it among their first novels.

Does Johnny Hate to Read?
Louis Sachar has found a way to combine a child's wacky way of viewing the world, clever plays on words, phrases, and chapters(!!), and a cast of quirky characters to produce a set of books that will coax any reader to keep on reading.

The third of his Wayside School series, Sachar turns the school upside-down, and, in the process, guarantees entertaining reading for adult and child alike. I particularly enjoy the audio version of the book, since the "voice" on tape successfully makes each character's persona his own.

This is a book that your child (and you!) will find yourself reading over and over, discovering new meanings in different passages each time.

Mr. Sachar, keep writing!! ... Read more

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WORSE THAN IQ
I can garantee the you will have a hard time discovering the arithmetic problems in this book. Sachar surely showed the humor and his intelligent brain. The way he expressed the problems is very easy to be understood, but i think you may need a big pile of paper, and a big pile of TIME.
The accompanying book Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is out before this book, and that one, ha, is very confusing. But not as much as this one.
Overall, Wayside School Series is just for fun.

Not as good as the first
Unlike the original Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, which was an excellent set of logic problems, some difficult enough to challenge a math teacher - I wish I'd had it while I was preparing for my GREs - this book was a bit of a disappointment. The problems were, first of all, much easier than those in the first book, and they stayed at mainly the same level. So, once you'd learned the basics of a certain type of problem, the next few of that type remained just as easy, instead of challenging the reader. Stick to the fist one -- it's strong and a LOT more fun. Methinks Sachar slacked off a bit in writing the "sequel".

This book DOMINATES!!!
Perhaps the finest piece of literature ever written, this book teaches you how to add words and that pop quizzes don't exist. I'll explain. If it's a pop quiz, it can't be on Friday because the kids will know it's coming. Then it can't be Thursday, because if they know it's not on Friday and they haven't had it yet, they'll know it's coming. Eventually, the kids eliminate the possibilities of a pop quiz altogther. Fab!

Excellent for development of logic skills
We use this book as an adjunct to our grades4-5 math curriculum. Specifically, we use it as a challenge for our brighter students. The students love the puzzles in this book and it enhances their love for math. ... Read more

Book Description

All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask!). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor--with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs. Drazil's class, they're throwing a coffeepot, a sack of potatoes, a pencil sharpener, and a light bulb out the window to see which hits the ground first. But the big surprise is that Mrs. Jewls is expecting a baby--but one named Cootie Face or Bucket Head--and a substitute teacher is coming--and everyone knows what that means...

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So FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is the funniest Wayside School book! If you haven't read the first and second books you should! Definetly buy it, I laugh every time I read it and I've read it a million times, once me and my friends were reading it out loud to each other and we were laughing so hard we couldn't talk, everyone kept grabbing the book from each other as if they could read it out loud but then cracked up and handed it to somone else!

Wayside school is a little stranger
Wayside School is getting Stranger

It's stories in wayside school. In Mrs. jewels class because they are left alone because the subs are mean. But Mrs. Jewels is having her baby that's why substitutes are there and the kids want Mrs. Jewels back. But then some thing bad happends to the students.
I think this book is great because it's really funny and it's really great to read a that is great for them but thing I hate is it's a short story but if it was longer it would be great.

Best book ever!!!
i got this book from the libary and in read the first chapter and i lovvvveeeedddit!! i could not put it down chidren that are 7 and up have to read this boook trust me i don't read alot but this one i do read...

Sam V. - Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
I've read "Wayside Shool Is Falling Down" and it was funny. "Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger" is even funnier and the problems are more interesting. Some of the parts might make you laugh out loud. The story is basically about Mrs. Jewls getting pregnant and other teachers with strange backgrounds take her place. There was Mr. Gorf, (he was Mrs. Gorf's son and he can steal peoples' voices through his third nostril), Mrs. Drazil (Louis's teacher),Mrs. Smith (Jason's Dentist and a former student of Mrs. Drazil's), and Miss Nogard (she hated everybody and she could read everybody's thoughts through her third ear on her head). As you can see, Wayside School does get a little stranger. You'll see what or who the little stranger is once you read the book, and I greatly recomend you do.

It¿s open and getting a whole lot stranger !!
It's open and getting a whole lot stranger !!
Wayside School gets a little stranger
by Louis Sacher

After closing for 242 days to get rid of cows, everyone's favorite 30 story school is open again!
In chapter 2 a message from the principal Mr. Kidswatter says "What a bunch of baloney! There I was lying on a beach in Jamaica when suddenly i got a fax that the stupid school was open again! Those kids better not bother me. My friends? What a joke! Like I'd want to be friends with those little snot-nose" over the intercom.
I think everyone who can read would like this book. Really it's that funny.
Another funny part is in chapter 20 Elevators. Where Mr. Kidswatter says "Good morning boys and girls. I have a very important announcement elevators have been installed in our school! Now before you all rush out to use the elevators I want to talk a little bit about the elevators. There are two elevators One is blue. one is red. When you want to go up, you take the blue one. When you want to go down you take the red one. It's that simple. I can not go wrong!" So finally Wayside School got elevators. A blue one and a red one. They each worked perfectly one time-and never could be used again.
In my own system out of 10 I give this book a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Really it's that funny. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Kliatt, published by Kliatt on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sachar, Louis. Sideways stories from Wayside School.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Author: Erin Darr
Publication: Kliatt (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Kliatt
Volume: 39Issue: 2Page: 31(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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