Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger
First edition cover. Sideways Stories From Wayside School
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| Author | Louis Sachar |
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| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
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April 27, 1995 |
| Media type | Print (in Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 166 pp (1st edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | (USA paperback) |
| OCLC | 34175867 |
| Preceded by | More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School (1989) |
Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger is a 1995 children's book by American author Louis Sachar, and the third book in his Sideways Stories From Wayside School series.
Mr. Gorf was the son of Mrs. Gorf, who tormented the students in Sideways Stories From Wayside School, and she herself got turned into an apple and eaten. He was born in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was never married, making his students think he wasn't related to Mrs. Gorf. He had three nostrils in his nose—the middle one had the power to suck out voices out of people and make them his own. He then lost his own voice, along with the others, when he sneezed them all out, ultimately sneezing his own nose off. In fact, the voice he used when he first appeared was stolen from a Scotsman 20 years previously, and his real voice sounds like a French donkey with a sore throat. Even the Scotsman's voice is returned when Mr. Gorf loses his nose. He was so upset about them taking his mother away that he used the children's voices to call their mothers and tell them that they hate them.
Mrs. Drazil was 66 years old, and weighed 124 lbs. She kept a blue journal of all the bad students she had since she started teaching decades ago. She treated the Wayside School students nicely, but not her old students (including Louis).
Wendy has an ear on top of her head that can hear thoughts. When she was dumped by her boyfriend Xavier, she began to make everyone's life miserable. Soon, it is revealed that Mrs. Jewls has had her baby. Wendy attempts throwing it out the window-but not before listening to its thoughts. And what she heard was pure love. She falls in love with Louis, and shows everyone her third ear. Louis says he loves her too; she doesn't have to hear his thoughts, she can see it in his eyes.
Mr. Gorf, Mrs. Drazil, and Ms. Nogard all have backwards animal names: "Gorf" is "Frog" backwards, "Drazil" is "Lizard", and "Nogard" is "Dragon".
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