"Wayside School is Falling Down" by Louis Sachar is the hilarious sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School." The story takes place in a bizarre school accidentally built thirty stories tall instead of thirty classrooms wide. Mrs. Jewls's class on the thirtieth floor welcomes a new student, Benjamin Nushmutt, whom everyone mistakenly calls Mark Miller, while he struggles to correct them. Meanwhile, Louis, the yard teacher, becomes the school's music teacher. Filled with absurd humor, wacky characters, and surreal adventures, the novel culminates in the mysterious threat of the school actually falling down, leaving readers eagerly turning pages.
