Chances are Louis Sachar’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School shows up on — if not tops — the list of strangest books you read in elementary school. Since 1978, Sachar’s whimsically macabre (read: ...
"Sideways Stories from Wayside School," Louis Sachar, Bloomsbury; 2004; 139 pp. Wayside School should have been built like most regular schools: one story high with its classrooms all in a row.
Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories From Wayside School series is still a favorite of elementary-age kids, decades after the first book hit the shelves. Each of the three books features 30 chapters -- one ...