Wayside school was accidentally built "sideways", with 30 classrooms on 30 different floors. The stories in this book center on the classroom on the 30th floor. It is in the "just a little bit beyond normal" vein. In one story teacher turns kids she doesn't like into apples. However, they manage to get her to turn them back to kids and when she tries to turn them into apples again, they hold up a mirror. She becomes an apple. Later another school worker comes in and eats the apple. In another story, a kid races up and down from the 30th story to serve as the go-between for a simple conversation. There is a kid that comes in with a smelly rain coat. They make him take it off to see another, and keep doing that until they find it is just a dead rat - and dead rats are always sneaking into the classroom. In one, kids stereotype other kids by their names, even if the behaviour. There is plenty of "fun" in this book, but it does get a bit over the top.
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