While Angeline’s father, a trash collector, wants great things for her, all Angeline really wants is to go for a ride in his garbage truck. Many of Sachar’s books have been popular among children and critics alike, including the touching and humorous There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom (1987), his Marvin Redpost series of early chapter books, and one of his finest books, Someday Angeline (1983), about an exceptional eight-year-old who is alienated because of her intelligence.
Challenging and comical, the problems are perfectly matched with the witty surrealist tone of the Wayside School stories. At Wayside School, Elf plus Elf equals Fool, and Moth plus Took equals Hmmmm. Louis Sachar has since written two more novels about the Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989) and Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), as well as Sideways Arithmetic from the Way side School (1989) and More Sideways Arithmetic from the Wayside School (1994)> in which Sachar’s characters present his own unusual brand of mathematical puzzles. For the next six years Louis Sachar wrote children’s books while studying and later practicing law, until his books finally earned enough money for him to give up his law career, The book was accepted for publication the same week Sachar began law school. It is full of intelligent, offbeat humor and kids who are familiar and yet a bit unreal. The book contains thirty stories about a thirty-story school. He was inspired to write classroom stories while working as a teacher s aide to earn college credits after dropping a Russian class. Louis Sachars first novel, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, was published in 1979.
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