Wayside School Book Report

Wayside school was built wrong; the school was meant to have thirty rooms with only one story, but instead, the school was built thirty floors high, containing one classroom on each floor. Louis, the yard teacher, tells readers about the children that have class on the 30th floor. The class has the meanest teacher in the whole school, Mrs. Gorf; the class does not understand why Mrs. Gorf is a teacher, because she does not like children. Over the course of a few days, Mrs. Gorf turns her entire class into apples. Once all of her students are turned back into children, Mrs. Gorf accidently turns herself into an apple and is eaten. The next day the students get a new teacher, Mrs. Jewls, who is nice. The students are not so fond of Mrs. Jewls, because they have never had a nice teacher before.

Wayside School itself is quite strange, containing laughing walls and giggling floors. Louis, the yard teacher, goes through thirty different stories about the students at Wayside School, most of the stories are strange and silly, but they are all true. One snowy day, the students are unable to come outside for recess, so Louis decides to tell the class on the 30th floor stories about us, the readers. Louis informs the students that we, the audience, do not count upside down, do not have students who are actually dead rats wearing rain coats, or a teacher that turns us into apples. Appalled by hearing such nonsense, the students booed Louise’s story. Unfazed, Louis goes on to tell the story to floor