‎'‎Watch closely‎,‎‎'‎ said Mrs Jewls‎.‎ ‎'‎You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil‎.‎‎'‎ Then she pushed the computer out of the window‎.‎ The children all watched it fall thirty floors‎.‎ ‎'‎See‎?‎‎'‎ said Mrs Jewls‎.‎ ‎'‎That‎'‎s gravity ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎‎'‎ That‎'‎s the way things happen at Wayside School‎.‎ There are twenty‎-nine kids in Mrs Jewls‎'‎ class and this book is about all of them‎:‎ there is Todd‎,‎ who is in trouble every day‎,‎ until he gets a magic dog‎;‎ Paul‎,‎ whose life is saved by Leslie‎'‎s pigtails‎;‎ Ron‎,‎ who dares to try the cafeteria‎'‎s mushroom surprise‎;‎ and all the others who help turn a day at Wayside School into one madcap adventure after another‎.‎