“Parents say the classroom is haunted,” Mr. Leeks, the custodian at Walter T. Melon Elementary, told us on the first day of school.
He leaned on his mop handle as if it were a crutch. He raised a bushy gray eyebrow and squinted an eye. His whiskers rasped like sand- paper as he stroked his narrow chin.
“Sometimes in the evening when I’m mopping the hallway, I hear sounds myself coming from that room—that room at the end of the hall,” he said. “Gives me the willies, it does.”


Classroom at the End of the Hall
In nine stories about the peculiar happenings at W. T. Melon Elementary, Roger is granted three wishes by a chalk dust genie, tidy Emily meets the Messy Desk Pest, and more.
Contents
The Classroom at the End of the Hall
The Chalk-Dust Genie
The Messy-Desk Pest
The New Art Teacher
The Other Witch
The Purple Reader
Mary’s Little Lamb
The Bug in Her Ear
Above the Classroom
Chapter 1 (pdf)
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Math Rashes, and Other Classroom Tales
This laugh-out-loud sequel to THE CLASSROOM AT THE END OF THE HALL is a witty collection of cautionary tales.
The New-School-Year-Moon hangs above every school the night before it opens. This year it shines over the W.T. Melon Elementary School brighter than ever. And the man in the moon is W.T. Melon himself! There's no doubt that, this year will be full of magical surprises that may teach Morgan, Kate, and the rest of the third graders a lesson or two.
Playground equipment gives a bully a taste of his own medicine, a fairy godteacher grants any wish, a rash breaks out after too much math--these are just a few of the wacky events that unfold in the classroom at the end of the hall.
Contents
The New-School-Year Moon
Doodles
The Chatterbox
The Playground Court
The Spelling Worm
The Catchiest Tune
The Pencil Loser
The Fairy Godteacher
The Homework Gnome
Math Rashes
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Mouth Moths, More Classroom Tales
Mysterious goings-on transpire in the classroom at the end of the hall. One of the four rules posted above the blackboard in the tall teacher's classroom is "Raise your hand to talk," but Paul can't seem to stop himself from just blurting out whatever he has to say—that is, until confetti-like moths begin fluttering around his face every time he opens his mouth. Not surprisingly—given the way things work at W. T. Melon Elementary School—there is a solution that Paul soon comes to learn. And so it goes with Kimberly, who has a bad habit of cutting in line, and Zachary, who can't seem to stay put in his chair.
Contents
The Doghouse
Mouth Moths
Spot
Cuts
Anta Claus
The Old Gray Chair
The Test Tester
Freeze Tag
Burp, the School Alarm
The Sub’s Subtraction
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