Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar

and while cheerfully on that path, i made a startling discovery: many of these beloved books o’ mine had sequels, some more than one. So, back in 2017 i decided to reread books i had loved when i was a little middle-grader, one for each month of the year. And there is no Miss Zarves.īut how do you explain the cow in her classroom? Miss Zarves taught the class on the nineteenth story. Hisdaughter, Sherre, was born in 1987.įulfilling my vow to read all the sequels i never knew existed to books i loved when i was little. She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom.

When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.

Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar