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  Mr. Pepperadder grabbed and shook Miss Mush’s arm. “They like it!” he said excitedly. “Look at them! They really like it.”

  Miss Mush didn’t say a word. A tear rolled down her sweaty and sooty cheek.

  “Did you write down the recipe?” he asked.

  Miss Mush shook her head. “There is no recipe,” she whispered. “No two rainbows are the same.”

  She gazed out across the lunchroom. This was all she ever wanted.

  Everybody chewed.

  About the Author

  Photo by Peggy Hagopian

  LOUIS SACHAR is the Newbery Award– and National Book Award–winning author of Holes, the Wayside School series, and many other books for children and young adults. He was born in East Meadow, New York, and now lives in Texas with his family.

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  Books by Louis Sachar

  The Wayside School Series

  Sideways Stories from Wayside School

  Wayside School Is Falling Down

  Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

  Holes

  There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom

  Fuzzy Mud

  The Marvin Redpost Series

  Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth?

  Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me?

  Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?

  Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher’s House

  Marvin Redpost: Class President

  Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake?

  Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Control

  Marvin Redpost: A Magic Crystal?

  Copyright

  WAYSIDE SCHOOL BENEATH THE CLOUD OF DOOM. Text copyright © 2020 by Louis Sachar. Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Tim Heitz. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Cover art © 2020 by Tim Heitz

  Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons and Catherine San Juan

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2019026618

  Digital Edition MARCH 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-296542-4

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-296538-7 (hardcover)—978-0-06-296540-0 (lib. bdg.)—978-0-06-299523-0 (special ed.)—978-0-06-299977-1 (intl. ed.)

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