Humorous Stories - Kids Fiction

Way up in the North Woods, twin moose babies, Alfonse and Abercrombie, are born. When they grow antlers, they strike out on their own. Soon Abercrombie is captured by two men who take him to Central Park Zoo in New York City. Alfonse escapes...

Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin;You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in. He's ... Uh oh Macavity's not there Young readers will love searching for Macavity and searching for clues as he carries out...

An ordinary horse with a very ordinary and really quite boring little life... until a rock band called The Tumbling Pebbles come to town. As the music pounds across the hills, Hendrix discovers he has an ear for music And then he comes across...

Based on a true story, a vibrant, inspirational picture book about self-reliance and the power of creativity and music, in which a group of hungry homeless kids in 19th century New Orleans build their own musical instruments from discarded items and become a successful...

Inventions, spells, and bullies--oh my! It all begins when Chet's favorite teacher is fired, only to be replaced by the mechanical invention of Dr. Tanya Lightov--a mysterious Russian scientist.Suddenly, the school seems possessed by forces that are upsetting the natural order of things: Kindergartners...

This pumpkin-shaped board book with a shining, foil cover is the perfect treat for your little trick-or-treater Join one adorable monster as he picks out the best pumpkin to make a most spectacular jack-o'-lantern A hauntingly sweet introduction to the most popular Halloween and...

Billy and Hoover are back in the hilarious new series from bestselling authors Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver FORMAT: UNABRIDGED 3 CDsIt's time for Moorepark Middle School's annual Speak Out Challenge, and Billy Broccoli thinks he's got it made. With his best friend Hoover...

Our favorite old lady is back and swallowing autumn items FORMAT: Paperback book & CDNARRATOR: Skip HinnantThat wild old lady is back swallowing fall-themed items. What can you make from leaves, clothes, a pumpkin, and rope? That's right, a scarecrow Perfect for fall and...

It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained to just one book FORMAT: 2 CDs, UnabridgedNARRATOR: TKSomeone--or something--is inviting ordinary kids to HorrorLand and trapping them there. But they're...

A new beach version of of the classic "There Was an Old Lady" song and favorite series!Format: Paperback book and CD"There was an old lady who swallowed a shell.I don't know why she swallowed the shell.She didn't tell."You won't believe why this old lady...

In this funny, action-packed middle grade novel from the author of the American Girl Luciana books, Alison gets invited to be on her dad's reality show, Survivor Guy, and faces important realities about her family, self-reliance, and learning to work together with friends. 12-year-old...

Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he's been reading them. When his favorite comic has a contest for kids, he hopes he has finally found a way to fix his family--all he...

Every kind of bird and beast has to sleep, from the monkeys in the jungle to the whales in the ocean to the ants under the ground. But not Fred. His to-do list is far too long! Armed with plenty of imagination, this determined...

"A roaring good time."--School Library Journal You see, the jackalope didn't start out with horns. First he was a plain old hare. You know, a jackrabbit. The horns came later, along with a corny fairy godrabbit and a cranky coyote. And the trouble those...

"Only boring people get bored...Interesting people can always find something to be interested in."That's what Tom Trelawney's father says, anyway. Tom shouldn't have been interested in playing with matches but he was...bored. Now the shed is in ashes and strange Uncle Harvey is the...

Superhero Jo Schmo has a problem: There aren't any crimes to fight in San Francisco So she and her doggie sidekick, Raymond, build a time machine and head back to the gold rush days to track down the notorious burping outlaw Wyatt Burp. Meanwhile,...

A delightful comedy of errors, Mother, Mother, I Want Another has been heartwarmingly re-illustrated by acclaimed artist Jon Goodell! Just as Mrs. Mouse kisses baby mouse goodnight, he cries, "Mother, Mother, I want another!" His concerned mama rushes off to invite other mothers--Mrs. Duck,...

When a brother and sister run out of tape while trying to wrap their dad's birthday present, they use various other sticky substances to make the paper stick.Rookie Readers (Ages 5-7) have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each...

Teddy is a little fluffy dog who has lots of adventures. He is very cute, and everyone thinks he is so sweet, but sometimes he can be very naughty. And that's just what happened one day when he went to stay with Grandma.Author: Elizabeth...

A boy in a fly's body. A toad waiting to be kissed. Horses that know Morse code and aliens who hijack children's bodies. Has everyone gone completely bonkers? These hilarious stories by award-winning author, Tom E. Moffatt, transport you to a world where mind-swapping...

It's movie night in the park Tiny and Eliot love summer. They play ball, swim, and go see a movie in the park. But when a cat appears onscreen during the film, Tiny doesn't know it isn't real. He barks and runs around, making...

I scream, you scream, we all scream--for the super burp George is determined to find a cure for his bothersome burps, so he returns to the place where it all began--Ernie's Ice Cream Emporium--to find a secret ingredient. But when a competing ice cream...

There are no time-outs when the super burp takes control George knows that his basketball team, the Fighting Ferrets, is really good. So when Louie proposes a bet for their upcoming game, George accepts the challenge: the person on the losing team has to...

It's baseball season, and Katie and her friends are busy rooting for their favorite team, the Cherrydale Porcupines. Katie loves the team, but can't understand why her friends are so obsessed with the team's star shortstop, Mike Reed; she prefers the old shortstop who...

Rotten Tooth has finally decided it's time to teach the pirate kids some real pirating skills They are overjoyed--until he begins by showing them how to tie and untie different knots. BOR-ING But one night while the kids are below deck practicing their knots,...

Zack is nervous about the fifth-grade Halloween dance. He doesn't know how to dance and he doesn't have a date When Zack meets Prudence, a beautiful girl who speaks with a funny accent and dresses in old-fashioned clothing, he's smitten. He thinks he's found...

Mummies are cool, but they're creepy, too Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot--now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short).Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448426331ISBN-13: 9780448426334Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2002Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 7.76h x 5.06w...

It seems like a regular field trip to a natural history museum--until Zack gets locked inside for the night and discovers what really goes on in those display cases when no one is watching. A tribe of curious Neanderthals, rampaging woolly mammoths, prehistoric food...

I went to visit my Grandma Leah in Chicago, and we went to a White Sox game. Doesn't sound like such a big deal, right? Well, here's the thing--Grandma played in the gameAuthor: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448425505ISBN-13: 9780448425504Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2001Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Zack used to be in control of hisown body. But that was before someone else--someone who's been dead almost one hundred years--took over. She's bossy, she's British, she's a queen--and she and Zack are not amusedAuthor: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448421763ISBN-13: 9780448421766Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Strange things just won't stop happening to Zack One more out-of-this-world adventures join this funny series about a 10 year old who's prone to paranormal problems. Zack enters a horror film fan contest, and he and his best friend win an evening with Mella...

Zack's first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?Author: Dan Greenburg, Jack E. DavisISBN-10: 0448420414ISBN-13: 9780448420417Publisher:...

Forget about the Y2K problem Zack's up to his ears in dragons and wizards when a computer glitch sends him hurtling back in time to the year 999--and a peculiar boys' school known as Dragon Slayers' AcademyAuthor: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448420341ISBN-13: 9780448420349Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage:...

A trip to New York City to celebrate her 89th birthday--and participate in a Rockettes reunion at Radio City Music Hall--leaves Zack's Grandma Leah feeling younger than springtime. And she's looking that way too, since a strange trip through an airport metal detector turned...

Uh-oh Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It's not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queenAuthor: Dan GreenburgISBN-10:...

Late one night when Zack hears strains of Heartbreak Hotel coming from the fridge, he discovers the possibility that Elvis lives on...as a turnip Talk about getting back to musical rootsAuthor: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448417499ISBN-13: 9780448417493Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/1998Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.60h...

A hypnotist's show turns out to be way more than Zack bargains for when he is pulled out of the audience, put into a trance, and his body is "taken over" by the spirit of someone from the past. And that's only the beginning,...

"My clone looks like me.My clone talks like me.He helps me with my homeworkand takes care of my bullies.And he could be the answerto all my problems.Or he could be my biggest one yet!Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448415607ISBN-13: 9780448415604Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/1997Pages: 64Format:...

Hawaii. Dream vacation. Same thing, right? Wrong No sooner do Zack and his dad arrive at their hotel does strange things start happening to Zack. First he gets bonked on the head by a falling coconut, then the T. V. blows up, then he...

After months of hoarding his allowance, Zack is on his way to buy a prized baseball card. But when he gets to the store, the owner tells him that someone else has just bought it. Who, you may ask, has beaten Zack out of...

When Zack's friend Spencer brings a 60's-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they...

With desperate poachers on their trail, Sammy and her fellow campers have just been added to the endangered species list. "Think a combination of Carl Hiaasen's Flush and Janet Evanovich's "Stephanie Plum" and you'll be right on target" --School Library Journal This is not...

"The hottest sleuth to appear in children's books since Nancy Drew" (The Boston Globe) is back Don't miss the eighth book in the series that's been described as "a combination of Carl Hiaasen's Flush and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books" (School Library Journal) and...

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" --Midwest Children's Book Review Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes....

Play ball That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard...

Donuts, donuts, a mountain of donuts. Molly Duff rubs her stomach. She'd like to eat them, but the Pee Wee Scouts are going to sell them. Door to door. To earn badges and help pay for a weekend at camp. Mrs. Peters, their troop...

Molly Duff watches the clock on the classroom wall--tick, tick, tick. Nearly three o'clock. Time for Pee Wee Scouts Troop 23 runs out of the classroom and down the stairs--clop, clop, clop. Tuesday is their meeting day. Molly can't wait. Today Mrs. Peters, their...

Steven and his best friend Russell are back When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case. With the secret password (Bow-wow-wow yippee yo yippee yay ) Steven, Richelle,...

The perfect summer vacation read for tweens A middle-school girl finds out that being a teenager isn't all it's cracked up to be in this realistic read about friendship with plenty of LOL moments--and a magical twist Seventh grader Addie Bell can't wait to...

The hilarious first book in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about the magical rivers that run through the sewers of London and shape history in ways you'd never learn in school. Magic is real. History is a big, fat lie. Hyacinth Hayward's mother has just...