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Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

By Louis Sachar
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When a substitute teacher replaces Mrs Jewls at Wayside School, strange and amusing events unfold. From Miss Mush's unusual baked liver lunch to a chaotic pet day on the thirtieth floor featuring unexpected animals and even an orange named Fido, the school is filled with quirky and hilarious moments. The arrival of the mysterious POOPS handbook adds to the playground mayhem in this humorous and imaginative tale by Louis Sachar.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for children who enjoy humour and quirky stories, and for fans of Louis Sachar's distinctive wit and imaginative storytelling.

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When a substitute teacher is called to stand in for Mrs Jewls, it can mean only one thing – strange things are going to happen at Wayside School. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the thirtieth floor. There are dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and an orange named Fido, causing a terrible commotion. Not to mention the arrival of the POOPS handbook in the playground…

Enjoy all the fun in this enormously humorous and quirky introduction to Louis Sachar's famously dry wit. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff.

This is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.

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Independent on Sunday praises Louis Sachar as a master of American fiction. The Guardian highlights the book's clever, fast-moving stories filled with bizarre events, each refreshingly different. The Observer describes Sachar's work as an extraordinary and unconventional novel where magic and hard realism collide.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526622105

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff
  • Illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 192

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Louis Sachar Young Adult

About the Author

Louis Sachar is the author of the international bestseller and award-winning Holes, which was made into a film in 2003. All of Louis's books for children have been published in the UK by Bloomsbury. These also include Small Steps, Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Someday Angeline, and the Marvin Redpost series and Wayside School books. Louis Sachar lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, daughter and two dogs.

Aleksei Bitskoff was born in Estonia and graduated with a master's in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, London, in 2010. His influences include Russian illustrators and animators, as well as Tove Jansson and the Moomintrolls. Aleksei lives in London with his wife and their two children.

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