Sideways Stories From Wayside School, by Louis Sachar

In this first installment of the Wayside School series, the reader is introduced to the quirky building and its quirkier students through thirty vignettes, one for each of the school's thirty stories (except for the missing nineteenth floor of course). We meet stinky Sammy, John who can only read upside down, and Mrs. Jewls, who has very unconventional ways of teaching her students. Sachar's Wayside School series continues to be a favorite even after three decades. I am always seeing this book on reading lists of funny stories and I would highly recommend it for those on the younger end of the tween spectrum.

Sachar, L. (1978). Sideways Stories From Wayside School. New York: harper trophy. ISBN 978-0380731480