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Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Louis Sachar

139 pages

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About this book

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.

Themes
Fun & LightFunny & SatiricalDreamlike & SurrealStrange & UnsettlingAbsurdity of institutional logicJoy in chaotic unpredictabilityWhimsy in mundane settingsResilience through collective silliness
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