![]() Whether or not said cow ended up contemplating the nature of the nineteenth story, we just don’t know… In the third book, we get a glimpse at Miss Zarves’s personal life, after she considers quitting teaching after a cow ends up in her classroom and keeps disrupting class. She doesn’t like it, but how else should she punish you? Keeping you in class after school? Or at least to act like you’re in any other class at Wayside School, which means to act really, really weird. The only way out is to act like you’re part of any other class. I wouldn’t want to stick around in Miss Zarves’s class either. Yeah, I figured that’s what you were thinking. But they don’t mind at all! Miss Zarves always gives perfect grades, no matter how much you mess up, and in the end, you can never be too old to learn, right? Most of the students in Miss Zarves’s class, in fact, are much too old for elementary school, having been there for many, many years. You get a two-minute break every eleven hours, and all your other hours are spent working on impossible tasks like memorizing the dictionary, and sorting numbers from one to a million in alphabetical order. Little does she know, she found herself a one-way ticket to Miss Zarves’s class on the nineteenth story, which turns out to be the most brutal class in the school. Well that’s a terrible thing to be asking, unless you want to end up like…Īllison, who wonders that exact thing, and subsequently, stops existing! She tries to get attention, but no one notices her. You may already be scratching your head, asking if Wayside School is only twenty-nine stories tall if there’s no nineteenth. ![]() Here’s all of it:īut in the SECOND book, things start to get confusing. Doesn’t exist! She gets her own story, later on. That’s really the extent of what Miss Zarves does in the first book, she just. Jewls thanks him, and he says it was nothing. Eventually, with a bit of help, he figures out that he can’t deliver no notes to no teachers, and he already hasn’t done it! Mrs. Jewls’s class on the thirtieth story, needs to take a note to her, but he has a bit of trouble, because there is no Miss Zarves, there is no nineteenth story, and there is no note. Now that I’ve clarified all that, we can talk about Miss Zarves herself! She makes her lovely debut in the chapter “Calvin,” which is about as confusing you’d expect a story about a teacher that doesn’t exist to be. ![]() There is no nineteenth story, and there is no Miss Zarves. Miss Zarves teaches on the nineteenth story. ![]() Wayside School was built sideways, it is a thirty story building with one classroom on each floor. Do you think I’d pass up the opportunity to infodump about one of my favorite series of all time? Pfffah! What a fool YOU are! But first, a few things you ought to know, so you don’t get confused. If you have fond memories of this series, you already know why it's incredible, so consider this a refresher: here are 10 unforgettable reasons why the Wayside School series is the most fantastically weird book series ever: 1.Debut: Sideways Stories from Wayside School Though the circumstances of Wayside School may be unbelievable, the lessons of the book hold true - even in our far more mundane reality. This children's series is a classic, and I certainly hope my own kids and the generations that follow continue to read it. And even afterwards - during lunch and recess - the stories sparked the quirkiest conversations for me and my bookish friends. It was magical and weird and unforgettable. I remember sitting on the floor while my teacher read aloud about the mysterious and odd tales that happened on the 13th floor of Wayside School. Full of 30 strange, undeniably kooky characters, the series made it impossible to keep a straight face while reading. And, of course, Louis Sachar's Wayside School is definitely one of those. There are certain book series you just won't forget reading as a kid: Harry Potter, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Goosebumps, The Baby-Sitters Club.
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