This beloved comic middle-grade series is set in a school that was supposed to be built as a single-story building with thirty classrooms side by side — but was accidentally built thirty stories tall with one classroom on each floor — and follows the deeply peculiar students and teachers of the thirtieth floor through a series of absurdist and surreal episodes. The series is a classic of nonsense comedy for children, celebrated for its inventive humor, logical illogic, and affectionate weirdness.
Wayside School was accidentally built sideways—thirty stories tall with one classroom on each floor—and the students and teachers are just as wonderfully strange as the building, leading to a series of absurdist, hilarious short stories. A modern classic of elementary school humor.
The students of Wayside School return for more absurdist adventures, including a substitute teacher who hypnotizes students, a cow on the roof, and the mystery of the missing Mrs. Jewls. Another hilarious collection of interconnected stories.
After a long hiatus, the students of Wayside School return for more surreal adventures, including dealing with a cloud of doom, a new cafeteria, and the ongoing strangeness of their thirty-story school. A continuation of the series' trademark absurdist humor.