# Wayside School Is Falling Down

**Author:** Louis Sachar
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 179
**Genre:** Humor
**ISBN-13:** `9780062383204`
**ISBN-10:** `0380754843`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/wayside-school-is-falling-down
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Louis Sachar returns to the school that was accidentally built thirty stories tall, one classroom per floor. In a string of absurd, interconnected chapters — a cow on the nineteenth floor, a substitute who counts to a million, a Mrs. Jewls lesson gone wild — Sachar delivers the deadpan, logic-bending humor that has hooked young readers for decades.

## Themes

- humor
- school
- friendship
- imagination

## Where this book is assigned

### Volunteer State Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Tennessee — [source: Tennessee Library Association — Volunteer State Book Award, Intermediate (gr 4-6) + Middle School (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1979); past-winners roll](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/past-winners)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Tennessee — [source: Tennessee Library Association — Volunteer State Book Award, Intermediate (gr 4-6) + Middle School (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1979); past-winners roll](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/past-winners)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Tennessee — [source: Tennessee Library Association — Volunteer State Book Award, Intermediate (gr 4-6) + Middle School (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1979); past-winners roll](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/past-winners)

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