Doubt we'll get to 99, but we can always hope!
99. The last words of each book are "booed", "mooed", and "oooohed".
98. In book 3, the name of each substitute teacher spelled backwards is a reptile: Gorf = frog, Drazil = lizard, and Nogard = dragon.
97. Jane Smith's last name is Payne (pain), so her husband's name is Sham Payne (champagne).
Anything else?
96. I think in the beginning of "Wayside School is Falling Down," all the children are just getting back to Wayside so they're really happy. "Shouts of joy" could be heard from all the corners of the room, and when Mrs. Jewels rang her bell for silence, "Joy stopped shouting." That one took me a few times to get.
97. In "Wayside School is Falling Down," in the chapter where the substitute Mrs. Frank comes the day that Benjamin decides to tell the class his real name, at the end of the chapter, Mrs. Franklin jokingly says that her name is also Benjamin. This would make her full name Benjamin Franklin.
96. I believe this is in the same chapter. At the beginning it explains that Benjamin does not want to tell the class his real name, for a number of reasons. Among these reasons is the fact that he does not want to 'stop getting high marks.' At that point, a number of classmates walk by, each of them saying, "Hi Mark!"
95. And now a kind of obvious one. Chapter 19 of the first book says, "There is no 19th story," referring of course to the school building, but also to the fact that there is no 19th story (or chapter) in the book.
I have to believe that the world doesn't disappear just because I close my eyes.
those are great, never noticed them.
share94. The three Erics all have cooking-related last names: Fry, Bacon and Ovens.
share93. Bebe's last name is Gunn, so her name is "BB Gun" and her fake brother's full name is "Ray Gunn".
92. Although this is obvious to some, it took me until the fourth time reading it to notice it. Although Leslie never says "Pencil" when hypnotized, she does like 10 chapters later and Paul licks her ear.
91. The 19th chapter in the other two books is also based on the nineteenth story (in "Falling Down" it's pretty obvious considering there are three of them but "Stranger" has "Time Out" as chapter 19.)
90. The same three guys including the one with the attaché case make a cameo in each of the three books. In "Sideways Stories" they are in Jenny's chapter where she finds herself alone at school and they catch her studying spelling. In "Falling Down", Myron runs into them in the basement and they "grant" him freedom somehow. In "Stranger" they're in the chapter about the ninteenth story where Miss Zarves is complaining about how everyone sees her as a nobody (Time Out).
Also in the chapter with Ms.Franklin, the illustration is of a woman with her hair in a ponytail, little spectacles, and a ruffled collar-ala Benjamin Franklin.
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shareIn "Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger," after Louis gets rid of the cows, he keeps hearing one, but can't find it (because it's on the nonexistent 19th storey). In the chapter when all the kids bring their pets to class, the text goes something like, "A dog barked. A cat meowed. A cow mooed. Birds tweeted." But no-one brought a cow to class ... that was the cow on the 19th storey!
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