The Sideways Stories From Wayside School is a popular series of 3 books by Louis Sachar. Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Wayside School is Falling Down, and Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger are three novel-length books. In 1989, Sachar released a spinoff which involves two books of mathematics and puzzles interspread with stories, Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, and More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School. The books tell many stories of a school built as a tower 30 stories high, with one room per story, but no 19th story. Each book contains 30 chapters, called stories, complementing the 30 stories in the book.
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