<P>Strange Strangers Come to Wayside School . . .</P> <P>Welcome back to Wayside School! After closing for 242 days to get rid of the cows (don't ask), everyone's favorite thirty-story school is finally back in session.</P><P>But all is not well at the school with no nineteenth floor. Mrs. Jewls, the best teacher at Wayside, is having a baby, and that can mean only one thing -- substitute teachers.</P><P>First comes Mr. Gorf. Was he married to the terrible Mrs. Gorf? And why does he have three nostrils? The kids won't tell you. They're not talking.</P><P>Then there's Mrs. Drazil. She never forgets a missed homework assignment, not even one that Louis the yard teacher owed her fifteen years ago.</P><P>By the time the class gets the fearsome Miss Nogard, the kids can't wait for everything to return to normal.</P><P>Wayside School may seem like a pretty strange place already, but now it has to get a little stranger.</P>