Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
What's This Book About
Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger! Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it’s a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth story. Miss Zarves teaches the class on the nineteenth story—except there is no nineteenth story, so there is no Miss Zarves. Understand? Good. Explain it to Calvin. More than nine millions readers have laughed at the wacky stories of Wayside School. So what are you waiting for? Come visit Wayside School!
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Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats’ Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.
Adam McCauley enjoys illustrating, playing music, and making things. His illustrations have appeared in magazines, publications and campaigns worldwide. He works out of his studio in the sunny Mission district in San Francisco.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780380723812
- Publication Date
- March 26, 2019
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Original Publication Date
- April 27, 1995
- Page Count
- 197
- Word Count
- 24281
- Audience
- Juvenile Reader
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lexile® Level
- 500L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.3
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 3
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 11497
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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