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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Children's comic fiction
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Book 1 of the Wayside School series
Wayside School was meant to have thirty classrooms on one floor, but a construction mistake stacked them thirty stories high with no nineteenth floor. On the top level, Mrs. Jewls teaches a class where children may read upside down, sell their toes, become apples, or encounter rules governed by gleefully sideways logic. Thirty short chapters focus on different students and teachers, building a community whose absurdities are funny because its personalities remain recognizable. Inventive and mischievous, this children's classic suits independent or read-aloud audiences who enjoy surreal humor, quick episodes, wordplay, and school stories that turn ordinary classroom anxieties into impossible comic adventures.
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Cartoonish peril and meanness · Absurd and occasionally dark humor
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Thirty-Story Orange Fizz
A bright, fizzy drink for a school where everything is delightfully sideways.
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- Fill a glass with ice, add orange juice, top with sparkling water, and stir gently.
- Garnish: Orange wheel.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
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Orange-Kissed Brown Ale
For adults of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
A twist of orange wakes up the toasty warmth of English brown ale.
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- 12 oz English brown ale
- 1 wide strip orange peel ↗
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- Pour the beer into a pint glass and express the orange peel over the surface; add the peel if desired.
- Garnish: Orange peel.
- Glassware: Pint glass.
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