Louis Sachar
1) Fuzzy mud
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"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--
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Follows the strange adventures of Mrs. Jewis' class at the structurally and educationally unsound Wayside School, including Todd's acquisition of a magic dog that saves him from trouble, and Ron's daring stab at the cafeteria's mushroom surprise.
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2011
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The classic novel from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover!
David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses. Now David can’t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are freaks. He even...
David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses. Now David can’t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are freaks. He even...
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Nobody understands why Angeline is so smart. She could read the first time she picked up a book, she can play the piano without ever having had a lesson, and she even knows what the weather is going to be. But being smart is causing Angeline nothing but trouble. The mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with an eight-year-old girl who seems to be a genius. Angeline...
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This eBook features all four books, each with new cover and interior art and full of hilarious stories, zany art, and a quadruple serving of absurdity. More than fifteen million readers have laughed at the stories of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School Is Falling Down, and the newly released Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom.
So what are you waiting for? Come visit Wayside School!.
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2010
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English
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From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, comes the young adult novel THE CARDTURNER, an exploration of the human condition.
How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!
The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He...
How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!
The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He...
10) Holes (Playaway)
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2008
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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no - good - dirty - rotten - pig - stealing - great - great - grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more...
11) Holes
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
12) Small steps
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Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
13) Hoyos
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2003
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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[1989]
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Book Description: Everyone take out your spelling books," said Mrs. Jewls. "It's time for arithmetic." Sue is so excited for her first day at Wayside School. But things at Wayside are far from normal-and Sue's teacher, Mrs. Jewls, is completely wacky. She expects the students to add and subtract words! Sue has never heard of anything so ridiculous. She knows adding apples plus oranges is impossible ... or is it? Anything can happen at Wayside School....
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c1992
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Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really Robert, the lost prince of Shampoon. The story is wonderfully logical and absurd, with a wit and attention to detail rare in an easy reader.
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c1994
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Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers. Louis Sachar and his wild Wayside School are at it again, with even more brain twisters. This sequel to the popular Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School contains an all-new line-up of more than 50 math puzzles requiring only basic math skills to solve. Full of clues and hints, the book provides all the answers in the back.