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Chapter Summary Of The Book Wayside School Is Falling Down
The book "Wayside school is Falling Down" is about a school with 30 floors and 1 class on each floor. on the 30th floor there is a rumor that the teacher on that floor, Mrs. Jewels is the meanest teacher in the world. In the book Mrs. Jewels would move one ear than the other, then stick out her tongue. These movements would cause the students to turn into apples. Mrs. Jewels would turn the students into an apple if they cried, got an answer wrong, or did something that she did not like. on day on the last day of school the students were taking a test and a student toby was copying of his friends Matt paper because he didn't study. Mrs. Jewels caught them and turned them into and apple. The whole was class was upset because she turned Matt into

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