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487:'Miss Zarves" after the nineteenth story teacher. It then proceeds to tell the reader that Miss Zarves teaches on the 19th floor, but as there is no nineteenth floor, there is no Miss Zarves, and as there is no Miss Zarves, there is no 19th chapter. However, it is shown to exist, "somewhere between the 18th and 20th floors". All of the students, including Mrs. Jewls, end up there, as well as a cow and presumably a basketball as well, when it disappeared after being thrown where the 19th floor would've presumably been. Also, characters who have been in the 19th floor are apparently invisible to others. The students of the nineteenth floor (Mark Miller, Virginia, Nick, and Ray Gunn) are mainly characters who are made-up. For example, 'Ray Gunn' is Bebe's made-up brother. Mark Miller is also the name given to Benjamin Nushmutt by Mrs. Jewls.
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235:(2020). The books tell of a school where the contractor misread the blueprints and mistakenly built it sideways. As such the school was constructed as a 30-story skyscraper. The 19th floor was omitted from the plans.
302:. Besides helping out in a classroom, I also became the Noontime Supervisor, or "Louis the Yard Teacher" as I was known to the kids. It became my favorite college class, and a life-changing experience.
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