SidewysStoriesfromWaysideSchool.doc

Sideways Stories from Wayside School @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Sideways Stories from Wayside School Louis Sachar 1 Introduction This book contains thirty stories about the children and teachers at Wayside School. But before we get to them, there is something you ought to know so that you dont get confused. Wayside School was accidentally built sideways. It was supposed to be only one story high, with thirty classrooms all in a row. Instead it is thirty stories high, with one classroom on each story. The builder said he was very sorry. The children at Wayside like having a sideways school. They have an extra-large playground. The children and teachers described in this book allgo to class on the top floor. 2 So there are thirty stories from the thirtieth story of Wayside School. It has been said that these stories are strange and silly. That is probably true. However, when I told stories about you to the children at Wayside, they thought you were strange and silly. That is probably also true. 3 Mrs. Gorf had a long tongue and pointed ears. She was the meanest teacher in Wayside School. She taught the class on the thirtieth story. If you children are bad, she warned, or if you answer a problem wrong, Ill wiggle my ears, stick out my tongue, and turn you into apples! Mrs. Gorf didnt like children, but she loved apples. Joe couldnt add. He couldnt even count. But he knew that if he answered a problem wrong, he would be turned into an apple. So he copied from John. He didnt like to cheat, but Mrs. Gorf had never taught him how to add. 4 One day Mrs. Gorf caught Joe copying Johns paper. She wiggled her ears-first her right one, then her left- stuck out her tongue, and turned Joe into an apple. Then she turned John into an apple for letting Joe cheat. Hey, that isnt fair, said Todd. John was only trying to help a friend. Mrs. Gorf wiggled her ears-first her right one, then her left-stuck out her tongue, and turned Todd into an apple. Doe