Gorf, even if she doesn’t always know what’s best for her students. Gorf, who likes to turn kids into apples, until the apples rebel against her. Mrs. The book focuses on the class on the thirtieth floor. (“The builder was very sorry.”) And so the reality at this school is itself a bit sideways. This isn’t a normal school instead of 30 classrooms built side to side, the classrooms were built on top of each other so the school was 30 stories tall. The book introduces us to all 30-ish members of a class in Wayside School. But this collection of 30 short stories adds up to a brilliant and hysterical gem for the slightly off-kilter kid inside us all. Some of its stories are little more than half-baked jokes others are dark and surreal tales. It’s archetypal and allegorical, a commentary on things like authority and conformity and the innate goodness of people and a bunch of other big ideas. There’s no question that Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a silly, sweet book, but it’s also something greater.
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