Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar

Or at least he thought he did.īut before you enter, you should know something about Wayside School. He was sure of it! Still, every once in a while, he heard something go ‘moo’. He had scrubbed and polished every inch of Wayside School. He put his hands over his ears and said, ‘I don’t hear it, I don’t hear it, I don’t hear it,’ until the mooing stopped. Suddenly, from somewhere inside the building, or maybe just inside his head, Louis heard a loud ‘moo.’ But whenever he felt like quitting, he thought about those poor kids, stuck in those horrible schools, and he just worked harder.Īnd at last, two hundred and forty-three days later, the school was ready to open. He often had to run and stick his head out a window to get a breath of fresh air. At night he slept on the couch in the teachers’ lounge on the twelfth floor. For two hundred and forty-two days, he pushed and pulled, shovelled and mopped. Louis was afraid he’d cry if he talked to them.īut he worked hard. No two kids were sent to the same school. When the school closed, the children were sent to other schools. He passed out the balls and played with the kids at recess and lunch. Louis used to be the yard teacher at Wayside School. Or else a child would come, look at the sign, stand on her head, then sadly walk away.īut he never said ‘Hi!’ to them. On some days a child would come, look at the sign, then sadly walk away. Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Controlġ4.A LIGHT BULB, A PENCIL SHARPENER, A COFFEE POT AND A SACK OF POTATOESġ7.WHY THE CHILDREN DECIDED THEY HAD TO GET RID OF MRS DRAZILįor two hundred and forty-three days, a lonely sign hung on the front of the old school building.

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Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar