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Louis Sachar

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Born

in East Meadow, New York, The United States

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http://www.louissachar.com/

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Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Margaret Atwood, E.L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut, Kazuo Ishiguro, Flanner ...more

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Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.

Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School .

He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He decided to go to law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

His first book was published while he was in law school. He graduated in 1980. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to t ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,536,192 ratings · 43,650 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	Holes (Holes, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,254,697 ratings — published 1998 — 278 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School, #1) by Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author), Adam McCauley (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 98,940 ratings — published 1978 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayside School Is Falling Down (Wayside School, #2) by Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author), Adam McCauley (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 60,722 ratings — published 1989 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom 4.02 avg rating — 24,770 ratings — published 1987 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger (Wayside School, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 22,395 ratings — published 1995 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Steps (Holes, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 21,071 ratings — published 2006 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fuzzy Mud 3.89 avg rating — 12,052 ratings — published 2015 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker 3.84 avg rating — 10,564 ratings — published 2010 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School (Wayside School, #2.5) 3.88 avg rating — 4,314 ratings — published 1989 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (Wayside School, #4) by Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author), Tim Heitz (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 3,960 ratings — published 2020 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Barnes and Nobel Summer Reading Program

Barnes and Nobel has launched a summer reading program for students in grades 1-6. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is one of the possible prizes if you read 8 books by the end of august. Check out their website or my facebook page for more information.

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Series by Louis Sachar

Holes (2 books)
by

Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)

4.00 avg rating — 1,276,799 ratings

Wayside School (4 books)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author),

Tim Heitz (Illustrator)

4.16 avg rating — 194,197 ratings

Marvin Redpost (8 books)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author),

Amy Wummer (Illustrator)

3.80 avg rating — 6,824 ratings

Someday Angeline (2 books)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)

3.96 avg rating — 4,449 ratings

Quotes by Louis Sachar (?)

“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

tags: holes

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“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
― Louis Sachar

tags: give-up, holes, life, sachar

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“You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

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