Sideways Stories From Wayside School Analysis

This book is set at Wayside School, which as narrator Louis tells us, was built sideways: thirty stories straight up in the air, instead of thirty classrooms side by side. "The builder said he was...

Third Person (Omniscient), with Occasional Second PersonLouis Sachar has created a strange little world at Wayside School, and the same holds true for his narrative technique. He starts the book's...

This book is written for a young audience and could easily be enjoyed by elementary school kids. (In our experience, it's definitely enjoyed by elementary school kids.) However, sometimes Sachar's...

With its crazy cast of characters, absurd situations, and total lack of anything like a real plot, this book seems to have one big goal: to make you laugh. And if Louis Sachar can't make you laugh...

Sideways Stories from Wayside School is not only written for a young audience, it's written to entertain a young audience. And nothing ruins a joke like having to look up a word halfway through rea...

Sideways Stories from Wayside School. It's a mouthful, isn't it? And check out all of those similar sounds—it could almost be a tongue twister. One thing's clear from the title, though: this book...

In a book without a traditional plot, we can't really expect a traditional ending, but Sideways Stories manages to come full circle and pull together its cast of characters for a farewell bow and c...

This book wouldn't be out of place in a third-grade classroom, but that doesn't mean it can only be appreciated by eight-year-olds. Sideways Stories has a surprisingly wry, offbeat sense of humor w...

Because this book is backwards, sideways, and sometimes upside-down, it doesn't have anything like a traditional plot structure. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a collection of thirty mini-...

Louis Sachar was a student at U.C. Berkeley when he got a job working at a local elementary school to earn college credits. He says he became known as "Louis the Yard Teacher" there, which should s...

This is a book for elementary school kids, so don't expect anything more romantic than typical schoolyard taunts and teasing. The boys in the class chase Allison, who they think is pretty, until Al...