Sideways Stories From Wayside School Characters

Louis, who shares a first name with author Louis Sachar, is the yard teacher at Wayside School. He's also "the one who wrote this book" (30.2), as he tells you himself in the final chapter. You mig...

Mrs. Jewls, the teacher on the thirtieth floor, features in almost every story except the first—when the evil Mrs. Gorf is in charge. In contrast to scary Mrs. Gorf, Mrs. Jewls has a "terribly ni...

Mrs. Gorf is the closest thing this book has to a villain, although she's not much of a factor for twenty-eight out of the book's thirty stories. She has "a long tongue and pointed ears," and was "...

The wacky cast of characters in Sideways Stories is mostly made up of kids—twenty-eight of them, to be exact, who make up the entire class on the thirtieth floor. We never find out their age or g...