“It was great fun.” Sachar turned that school — Hillside — into Wayside, and the students into Sharie, Todd, Kathy and the other lovable oddballs in their class. (He also inserted his ...

Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories From Wayside School series is still a favorite ... and she tosses him out. 26. Sharie has very, very long eyelashes and a non-stop life, so she wears an enormous ...