Sideways Stories from Wayside School

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Why Pick On Me? (Marvin Redpost 2, paper)

Welcome to Dead House

The Last Dogs: The Vanishing (The Last Dogs, 1)

The One and Only Bob

The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk

Duck and Hippo Lost and Found

Holes

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake, but there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Louis Sachar, Adam McCauley, Julie Brinckloe, 1978

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Louis Sachar, 1987

Why Pick On Me? (Marvin Redpost 2, paper)

Barbara Sullivan, Neal Hughes, Louis Sachar, 1993

Welcome to Dead House

R.L. Stine, 1992

The Last Dogs: The Vanishing (The Last Dogs, 1)

Christopher Holt, Greg Call, 2012

The One and Only Bob

Patricia Castelao, Applegate Katherine, 2020

The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk

Carolyn Keene, 1940

Duck and Hippo Lost and Found

Andrew Joyner, Jonathan London, 2017