Joel Schick

Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. "Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it's a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth story. Mis Zaves teaches the class on the nineteeth story -- except there is no nineteenth story, so there is no Miss Zarves....

Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the Sound Museum, where they learn the principles of sound with the help of a ghost and her great-granddaughter.

During the "twelve days of Christmas," a household receives such monstrosities as five moldy things, six sneeds a-slavering, and ten gorks a-creeping.

(WEE READ)

The characters from Sesame Street enjoy a Halloween party at the pumpkin patch.

A parental ban on all television viewing for one week stimulates the curiosity of three youngsters.

Monsters and other ghoulish creatures crack jokes, tell riddles, and perpetrate puns.