Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

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Book SynopsisPerfect for very young readers celebrating Easter, this is a hilarious and vibrantly illustrated paper-over-board picture book that tells the story of decorating Easter eggs gone awry.Easter Bunny decides to decorate eggs with the help of his friend, Skunk. But Skunk’s way of showing excitement drives Easter Bunny crazy. They must come up with a compromise, otherwise Skunk will be left out of the Easter celebration! This riotously funny read-aloud is a delightful tale of two friends learning to work together that also seamlessly incorporates simple instructions for dying and decorating Easter eggs.

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the 100th day of school with Fancy Nancy, in this sweet and thoughtful I Can Read Story from New York Times bestselling team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Perfect for back-to-school! With the 100th day of school just around the corner, Nancy finds herself utterly stumped. She can’t think of anything exciting, special, or imaginative enough to bring in to class to commemorate the day. Just as Nancy begins to lose hope, she finds inspiration from an unexpected source—and learns that even sad events can bring with them a glimmer of beauty.Fancy Nancy: The 100th Day of School is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it''s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. The back matter features a list of the rich vocabulary words that are used throughout the story along with their definition.

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Book SynopsisWith more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!Oh no! In this twelfth book in the My Weird School Daze series, kids are getting too unhealthy, so Ella Mentry School has hired a health teacher to help the kids eat right and exercise.Ms.

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Book SynopsisEmma and her puppy, Dixie, are inseparable after-school friends. But when Emma starts preparing for her class''s production of The Wizard of Oz, Dixie feels left out. She wants to romp and play, but all Emma wants to do is memorize her lines in peace and quiet. Dixie does not understand.Dixie, the mischievous puppy who is trying to be good, will be embraced by beginning readers.

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Book SynopsisYou are holding a book.What should you do with it?Open it, and you will find out.

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Book SynopsisCat the Cat has a slumber party with her animal friends in the follow-up to What''s Your Sound, Hound the Hound?, which introduces early concepts through vibrant art, very simple text and repetition. 150,000 first printing.

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Book SynopsisYour buffalo is growing up. He plays with friends. He shares his toys. He''s smart! But is he ready for kindergarten? (And is kindergarten ready for him?) Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? is a hilarious look at first-day-of-school jitters from author Audrey Vernick and illustrator Daniel Jennewein.

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Book SynopsisMouse celebrates the holidays in this picture book in the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give... series!Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond have added stories, recipes, songs, games, and activities to make this deluxe edition a perfect way for families to celebrate the holidays together. This special Christmas edition includes: The complete If You Take a Mouse to the Movies storybook A CD with two songs and reading of If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Jason Alexander Three holiday recipes  Sheet music for two Mouse-style Christmas carols  Three activities for you and your family to share  Anecdotes from the author and illustrator  A sneak peek into Felicia Bond’s winter sketchbook  Letters to you from the author and illustrator If you take a mouse to the movies, he''ll ask yo

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Book SynopsisNewbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary expertly depicts the trials and triumphs of growing up through a relatable heroine who isn''t afraid to be exactly who she is.Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She''s finally old enough to take the bus too!Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate''sboingycurls during recess. Even worse, her crush rejects her in front of everyone. Beezus says Ramona needs to quit being a pest, but how can she stop if she never wastryingto be one in the first place?The classic Ramona books continue to make young readers laugh in recognition and pleasure. They''re perfect for independent and shared reading, at home or in the classroom.

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Book SynopsisNewbery Medal?winning author Beverly Cleary lovingly chronicles the ups and downs of elementary school woes. This is perfect for fans of Clementine. For a girl as enthusiastic about life as Ramona, starting the first grade should be easy! But with a teacher who doesn''t understand her, a tattletale classmate, and a scary dog who follows her on the walk home from school, Ramona has a hard time acting like the big girl everyone expects her to be. But when she shows up to school with a missing shoe, Ramona gets a fresh grip on her courage in order to make it through a mortifying situation.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place?the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Trenton Lee Stewart?has a brand-new look.Turning sixteen is a bittersweet occasion for Miss Penelope Lumley. Luckily, an invitation to speak at the annual Celebrate Alumnae Knowledge Exposition (or CAKE) at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females provides just the diversion Penelope needs.Optoomuchstic as ever, Penelope hopes to give her CAKE talk, see some old friends, and show off the Incorrigible children to Miss Mortimer, but instead she finds her beloved school in an uproar. And when Penelope is asked by the Swanburne Academy board of trustees to demonstrate the academic progress of her three wolfish students so they can judge the true worth of a Swanburne education, the future of her alma mater?and of her job as governess to the Incorrigibles?hangs in the balance.Trade Review"Happily, the mysteries deepen at Ashton Place in this fourth volume in the Incorrigible Children series. Once again delightful wordplay and a plot that snakes itself around a suspicious family tree add to the deliciousness." -- Booklist (starred review), about The Interrupted Tale (Book 4)

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Book SynopsisLouise Rennison, nationally bestselling author of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series, returns with another hilarious adventure starring Georgia’s cousin Tallulah Casey. In A Midsummer Tights Dream, Tallulah’s second great (mis)adventure, things are starting to look up for the budding star. She has been officially admitted to the Dother Hall performing arts program in Yorkshire. Her corkers have done some developing since last term. And she’s picked up some advice on snogging from dear old Georgia. So she’s ready to return to the stage—and face her crushes again. But Tallulah will have more than boy drama to deal with. This term’s project is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Tallulah has been cast as Bottom, the fool who spends most of the play with the head of a donkey. Even worse, if the show isn’t a complete success, the school won’t have enough money

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Book SynopsisThe most exciting road trip in history continues! In this third book in the thrilling, New York Times bestselling adventure series, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald dodge nefarious villains all the way to Graceland.The genius twins Coke and Pepsi have narrowly escaped a vat of a Spam, a pit of boiling fry oil, and a score of crazed adults all bent on killing them. But just when they thought they were safe, their arch nemesis Dr. Herman Warsaw reappeared, engaged to their Aunt Judy! Whoa—didn''t he die already?! Now, as the twins continue their family road trip from Washington D.C. through the South, it will take every bit of their genius abilities to outwit their wacky enemies. It doesn''t help that their parents remain totally oblivious! When they finally get to Graceland, Elvis''s home in Memphis, Tennessee, Coke and Pepsi come to an explosive conclusion you''ll have to read to believe!With Dan Gutman’s laugh-out-lou

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Book SynopsisMeet Summer Jackson, a smart, irresistible character who will appeal to to any kid who has ever wanted to skip straight to adulthood because it seems like SO much more fun.Summer is fairly certain she''s ready to be a grown-up—right now. She wants to wear a blazer, read the morning paper, and boss around a few second graders. Grown-ups have it so easy! But wait, do grown-ups play on swings?Teresa E. Harris and AG Ford''s hilarious #ownvoices story shows that being a kid might not be so bad after all. Perfect for fans of Fancy Nancy, Olivia, Eloise, and the Fresh Princess.

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Book SynopsisHelping her are Ogre and Olaf and all of their friends-zombies, ghosts, and mummies. But will trick-or-treaters come to the party? Or will the witch and her monster friends have to eat all the creepy-crawly treats by themselves?Trade Review"An energetic romp with a satisfying conclusion that will be a fun read-aloud for wide-eyed children anxiously awaiting the holiday." -- School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisPinkalicious shows off her pluckiness, pizzazz, and penchant for pink in this fun 8x8 storybook from bestselling author Victoria Kann!One hot summer day, Pinkalicious gets an idea that is simply pinkerrific—a pink lemonade stand!

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Book SynopsisYou think your school''s scary?Get a load of these teachers: Ms. Fang, an 850-year-old vampire Dr. Dragonbreath, who just might eat you before recess Mrs. T—break the rules and spend your detention with a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex! Plus Gargoyles, goblins, and Frankenstein''s monster on the loose The world''s most frighteningly delicious school lunch AndThe narrator''s an eleven-year-old ghost!Join Charles New Kid Nukid as he makes some very Scary friends—including Petunia, Johnny, and Peter the Wolf—and figures out that Scary School can be just as funny as it is spooky!

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Book SynopsisIn this second book in the Scary School series, the students of Scary School are off to Monster Forest. School may be scary, but the forest has a few frights of its own, including bearodactyls; Captain Pigbeard, fearsome leader of the Monster-Pirates; and his fiancée, Princess Zogette. When Zogette falls in love with Charles and follows him to Scary School, Captain Pigbeard raises his army in pursuit. But what the monster army doesn’t realize is that the teachers and students of Scary School are even more frightening than anything in the Monster Forest. Fans of the Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast series and the Bailey School books will love the way the Scary School series for middle-grade readers mixes spooky scares and laughs.

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Book SynopsisIn The Northern Frights, the third book in the spooky Scary School series, Charles “New Kid” Nukid and his friends, including Lattie, a girl ninja, must fight an epic battle with an ice dragon to save their school. But first they must survive going to Scream Academy as exchange students. And that may be hard, because the Academy has an abominable snowman for a principal, a Headless Horseman as one of the teachers, and the students are yetis, trolls, and ogres! Will Charles survive to make an ancient prophecy come to pass and save everyone? The illustrated Scary School trilogy by Derek the Ghost, with its mix of humor, scares, and adventure, is a perfect pick for middle-grade readers of the Wayside School series and the Zach Files books.

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Book SynopsisOther Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children’s literature.Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D. J. MacHale, Eric Nylund, Kenneth Oppel, Neal Shusterman, Shaun Tan, and none other than the late Ray Bradbury—spin tales of fantasy and science fiction the likes of which you have never imagined.Compiled by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature (and Secret Ambassador for the Intergalactic Alliance) Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Other Worlds is sure to boldly take you where no reader has gone before.

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Book SynopsisNow, in a series of bestselling picture books, kids can discover what Amelia Bedelia was like when she was a little girl in elementary school. In Amelia Bedelia’s First Field Trip, a picture book with exuberant, brightly colored illustrations, Amelia Bedelia is going on a field trip with her class.Trade Review"Parish has turned the clock back, making Amelia Bedelia young again and giving a new generation of readers the opportunity to enjoy her humor and self-confidence." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisWith more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!It’s Career Day at Ella Mentry School in this third book in the My Weirder School series!

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