Todd, a seemingly normal boy, must adjust to life as a new student at Wayside School, an unusual facility--with even stranger inhabitants--built thirty stories high, with one classroom on each floor.
Marvin Redpost suddenly figures out why he has red hair and blue eyes, while everyone else in his family has brown hair and brown eyes. He's not really Marvin Redpost at all. He is Robert, the Lost Prince of Shampoon! Soon his friends are treating him like royalty. Now all he has to do is break the news to his "parents.".
The rumor is going around that Marvin Redpost is the biggest nose-picker in the school. Clarence started it, and now everyone is acting like it's true. Even Marvin's best friends don't want to be seen with him. It's unfair! But what can Marvin do about it?.
It's "hole day," and even Mrs. North and Principal McCabe are wearing their very worst clothes. Now they're expecting company. The president - of the United States - is on his way.
An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School.".
Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing that looks like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior.
