Get ready for more improbable adventure and hilarity in the latest instalment of the brilliant and quirky Wayside School series – from Louis Sachar, author of the bestselling novel Holes

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 by award-winning Aleksei Bitskoff, this is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from the bestselling author of Holes.

"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