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Authors: Louis Sachar
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There was no way for the children to get down. Helicopters finally came and took them one at a time off the roof.
Wayside School didn’t blow down. It didn’t burn down. It wasn’t struck by lightning, sucked up in a tornado, or destroyed by an earthquake.
It was cowed.
No one knew how to get rid of the cows. Cows are strange animals. They don’t mind walking upstairs, but nothing can make them walk downstairs.
Someone suggested starving the cows, but the farmers wouldn’t allow that. Thousands of bales of hay were sent in. Several cows had calves.
The newspapers thought it was funny and made jokes about smart cows learning to read and write.
And so Wayside School was closed. The kids and teachers were temporarily sent to different schools.
Only one person stayed behind. He was there all day and all night trying to get the cows to go home.
“C’mon,” pleaded Louis, the yard teacher, as he pushed and pulled on the cows. “Go home. Please? Pretty please?”
Everybody mooed.
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First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Text copyright © Louis Sachar 1978
Illustrations copyright © Peter Allen 2004
This electronic edition published in October 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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