Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom

Description

It's a new year at Wayside School, and Mrs Jewls's class on the thirtieth floor has a LOT to deal with. First of all, they must prepare to face The Ultimate Test, which involves a fiendishly difficult Spelling Bee, upside-down singing and blindfolded smelling. Meanwhile the paperclips are triple-locked in a safe so no one can access them, Miss Mush is threatening to serve rainbow stew for lunch - and a CLOUD OF DOOM is gathering over the school. It can only mean one thing ... the kids at Wayside School are in for their strangest year yet! From the basement to the thirtieth floor, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this brand-new instalment of Louis Sachar's much-loved Wayside School series. With brilliant illustrations throughout, this is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from the bestselling author of Holes.

Louis Sachar is the author of the international bestseller and award-winning Holes, which was made into a film in 2003. All of Louis's books for children have been published in the UK by Bloomsbury. These also include Small Steps, Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Someday Angeline, and the Marvin Redpost series and Wayside School books. Louis Sachar lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, daughter and two dogs. Aleksei Bitskoff was born in Estonia and graduated with a master's in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, London, in 2010. His influences include Russian illustrators and animators, as well as Tove Jansson and the Moomintrolls. Aleksei lives in London with his wife and their two children.

Louis Sachar is one of the few masters of American fiction * Independent on Sunday on Louis Sachar * Thirty clever, fast-moving stories that describe the bizarre events at Wayside School ... each story is refreshingly different * Guardian on SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL * Magic and hard realism come crashing together. This is an extraordinary and unconventional novel * Observer on HOLES *