#20 in Humour
Wayside School is Falling Down
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Our view
“Wayside School is Falling Down” offers thirty short, daft school stories, well suited to children just starting on chapter books. They are vignettes, though some link up in more elaborate ways than in the first book. Some adults who read the series as children return to it fondly and rank this sequel level with the original or above it.
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About the book
Wayside School Is Falling Down is a 1989 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the second book in his Wayside School series. Like its predecessor, it contains 30 stories, although some stories are interconnected in more complex ways than they were in the series' first book. Through-lines in the book include the introduction of a new student, Benjamin Nushmutt, and Allison's trip to the nonexistent Miss Zarves' classroom on the 19th story. The book's title comes from the favorite song of one character, Kathy, to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down".
Reading order · Wayside School
Full order & progress →- Sideways Stories From Wayside School
8.08.0 / 10 - Wayside School is Falling DownThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Wayside School Gets a Little StrangerStart here
8.08.0 / 10 - Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom
–Not ranked yet - Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School
–Not ranked yet - More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 110 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Humour average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 110 | 100% |
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