School Stories

It's time for school!  This week, I'm sharing stories to read about school . . . .

Wayside Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith

Flora the mouse learns how to read, a skill not even her parents appreciate. When she finds a bag marked, "poison," she must convince them that reading is very important.

School of the Dead by Avi

Starting at the Penda School after his uncle's death, Tony Gilbert starts seeing his uncle's ghost everywhere.

Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Lynn Scheerger

Ms. Graham's fifth-grade class wants to promote change in the world; but when eight of them take an assignment too far, they must take responsibility for their actions and unite for a cause they all believe in.

More School Stories --

Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger

Archimancy: Shadow School by J.A. White

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot

The Landry News by Andrew Clements

The Only Girl in School by Natalie Standiford

Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster by Jennifer Brown

The School for the Insanely Gifted by Dan Elish

School for Sidekicks by Kelly McCullough

Spy School by Stuart Gibbs

The Unlucky Lottery Winners of Classroom 13 by Honest Lee

The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Zoo School by Laurie Miller Hornik

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar

Wayside School is back!  

The students of the class on the 30th floor along with their teacher Mrs. Jewl and Louis the gym yard teacher are back along with some new staff including psychiatrist Mr. Pickell and school libarian Mrs. Surlaw.

They are preparing for the Ultimate Test -- the test over everything they've ever learned.  If they fail they will have to return to kindergarten.  

There's only one problem . . . the cloud of doom that is parked over the school.

After 40 years, Louis Sachar has written the final book in the Wayside School series.  If you haven't read the previous books, you need to now!  They are filled with hilarious stories of the class on the 30th floor.  This is a great series for all kids.

Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar

When Wayside School was built something went wrong.  Instead of one floor with 30 classrooms, it was built 30 floors high with one classroom on each floor.  Mrs. Jewls' teaches the classroom on the 30th floor.  These are the stories about herself, her class, and her students.

Wayside School is a hilarious collection of short stories about the students the school.  Each story focuses on one of the students.  Each student it just a little different from the students you would normally see in a school.  This is a great book for kids look for a little humor with their reading.


Also, check out the other books in the series --
Wayside School Is Falling Down
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School
More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School

Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar

Tamaya Dhilwaddi and Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from school together for years.  It's a long four-mile walk around  the woods to their house.  Then one day, Marshall decides to take a "short cut" through the woods to avoid a school bully and Tamaya follows him into the woods.  They soon get lost.  Then they bully finds them.  Then they escape only to find that something in the woods was a lot more dangerous than they thought.

This was a great story of courage, suspense, adventure, and mystery.  The issues of bullying, telling the truth, and doing the right thing are handled with great care.  I would recommend this book to any reader.

Books So Good . . . They Won an Award

The following books are considered some of the greatest children's books of all time.  They are all Newbery Award winners and several have won other awards as well.  Check them out!

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Holes by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.