Humorous Stories - Kids Fiction

Yuck is the master of all things disgusting in these two tales--especially when he adds a squirmy pet and some gross-out tricks to the mix. In "Yuck's Pet Worm," Yuck has a new pet--a worm called Fang. "Worms are disgusting " his sister Polly...

Emma's earning money left and right--but is she in over her head? When Mia asks the Cupcake Club girls to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding, everyone is superexcited about the idea...especially when they find the perfect dress for the occasion It's Emma's...

"Dream big" is Louise the Big Cheese's motto. But try though she might, she's just plain old Louise, no Cheese. When the casting call goes out for Cinderella, Louise just knows that it's her moment to shine and take the stage as the STAR...

Charlie is always ready for anything . . . just in case. What if it's raining very hard--so hard that rain could come into the house and make the furniture float? Charlie has a plan to keep himself dry . . . just in...

Nikki Maxwell's worst nightmare comes true in this ninth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series A certain member of the CCP girls Dork fans know all about has gotten her hands on Nikki's diary and has decided to share...

Nikki Maxwell might just get her first kiss with her crush, Brandon, in this seventh installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series Nikki's juggling a lot this month. A reality TV crew is following Nikki and her friends as they...

Furry and Flo tackle their newest foe, a vampire bounty hunter named Vane, in this fur vs. fangs showdown. Vane is determined to take Furry back to his own world where he belongs, and he'll stop at nothing to complete his mission.It's up to...

When Paris and Helen decide to hit the road together, it means more trouble than they can imagine for both themselves and the people of Troy. But who says Helen is entirely at fault? Sure she had a face that launched a thousand ships...

Miss Small, the gym teacher, is teaching A.J., Andrea, and the gang to juggle scarves, balance feathers, and do the Chicken Dance Is this any way to stay in shape? Whatever happened to good old dodgeball? In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school...

Never before has school been this mixed up - or this much fun Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole He kissed a pig on the lips and painted his bald head orange And now he wants to bungee jump off...

Will Lucky solve life's mysteries before she turns twelve? The adventures that began with the Newbery Award-winner The Higher Power of Lucky come to a grand finale. For eleven-year old Lucky, the universe is full of questions. Is that mysterious woman at the café...

With an interactive text and bright, playful illustrations, explore what baby animals really mean when they make their adorable baby animal sounds. When a lion says ROAR, does he really mean MORE? When a cow says MOO, does she really mean YOU? How do...

Doctor Proctor and the kids (and the fart powder ) are back with a time traveling bathtub and a very special mission It's another fart-tastic adventure. The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa couldn't stop there. Next...

From humorist Alan Katz and illustrator Stephen Gilpin comes a very punny picture book about a series of show-and-tell misunderstandings. When the teacher says it's too rainy to go outside for recess and the kids must stay inside for show and tell, she gets...

Hillary McKay returns with another hilarious and adventurous story of the four Conroy sisters as they come together to devise a plan helping Ruth sponsor a child in Africa. When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for just...

SOMEWHERE SNOUT IS WAITING. Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: Where in the wide, wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts? Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the...

Please, don't carry germs with you to your seat. Wash your hands before you come to eat. Grabbing and poking are quite rude. Use the word "please" when you ask for food. And so the rhyme goes as kids learn table manners with hilarious...

Come along on a snow-filled adventure with Payloader Pete and Dump Truck Dan Each spread includes a die-cut that gradually reveals a big, gigantic pile of sparkling snow on the last page With an addtional acetate window filled with fluffy snow embedded on the...

Al and Keith are always monkeying around, but the one thing they really don't need is an actual chimp That's exactly what they find one day while hanging in the park. Where did it come from? What should they do with it? And why...

AL'S WORLD DON'T EAT THE PUDDING! Something about the lunch lady at Al's school stinks, and it isn't just her cooking. She wants Al and Keith to keep an eye on their friend Beth. But every time Al reports Beth's whereabouts to the lunch...

He's absolutely perfect. If only he were real. Lane and Vivi have had it with Isabelle Hunter's boyfriend, Shawn Littig (a.k.a. Sluttig). He is the only person who can turn their smart, confident best friend into a complete mess. When Shawn Sluttig cheats on...

Amelia may not be thrilled about sharing the backseat with her sister--but no family road trip is too long when a best friend visit is the destination When Amelia and her big sister Cleo share the backseat of the car for a family road...

Mrs. Tuttle has her hands full with a class of twenty-five boys -- and to make matters worse, they're all named Matthew Could there be room for one more Matthew? Mrs. Tuttle thinks so...and she doesn't even have trouble figuring out which boy is...

When the sun comes up, it's time for all trucks to begin their day Join them in this fun, playful Ready-to-Read as they mix, pump, and work their way through a very busy day. With beautiful illustrations by Ivanke and Lola, this is one...

The brilliant Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning BARRY LOSER series. Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates and Dennis the Menace.'My mum and dad are so busy looking after my brand new baby brother,...

Hailey's magic sprite, Maybelle, has finally gotten control of her magic Does that mean that Maybelle no longer needs Hailey? As if that's not enough to worry Hailey, now she's got her hands full being a flower girl in her aunt's wedding.Hailey Twitch wants...

Hailey Twitch wants to have fun, fun, FUN!Hailey has a secret. She has a friend named Maybelle that no one else can see. Hello, long weekend! Hailey is going camping with her best friend and her magical sprite. They will get to eat delicious...

A bright and hilarious romp from Vivian Vande Velde, the award-winning author of The Princess Imposter.Telmund is a prince who loves fables. But when a hasty witch mistakes him for bully in need of paranormal punishment, he's cursed to transform into a new animal...

When Baby Billy is born with a mustache, his parents have to figure out if it's a good-guy mustache or a bad-guy mustache in this hilarious oversized board book perfect for reading aloud at storytime. When Baby Billy is born with a mustache, his...

Responding to disgruntled dogs nationwide, Mr. Mutt, canine counselor, has solutions to the stickiest dilemmas. But Mr. Mutt has his own problem to solve: the cat (a.k.a. The Queen), who has her own idea of who's in charge. Now Mr. Mutt is the one...

Join a tough eleven-year-old as she faces down zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels while trying to find her missing twin in Sarah Cannon's imaginative middle-grade debut, Oddity. Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree...

The second book in an absurdly funny, middle-grade action-adventure series about a boy's quest to prevent a parallel world from taking over Earth."Part Narnia, part Home Alone. It wouldn't have shocked me to learn the book had been written by some guy named Lemony...

This hilarious final installment in the Charlie Joe Jackson series written by Tommy Greenwald and illustrated by J. P. Coovert is infused with nostalgia and just the right amount of chaos. Yes! Graduation day is finally here! Charlie Joe has been waiting for this...

The first in a funny new chapter-book series about a third grader with mysterious visions, Hazy Bloom and the Tomorrow Power is a winning tale from children's television writer Jennifer Hamburg, with illustrations by Jenn Harney. She can see the future . . ....

Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story is a funny, scary middle-grade send up of A Christmas Carol, about a boy who hates Christmas, from bestselling Goosebumps author R. L. Stine.Rick Scroogeman hates Christmas. He can't stand the carols and the pageants. He can't...

Memo: For Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things Operatives Only A series of strange incidents have been reported in Belfast: 1. Oddball kids are going missing 2. There are several unconfirmed signs of pirates. 3. A wild bear known to be a very...

What do you get when you cross Pinocchio and Dracula into one bizarre creature? Pinocula, of course! For Rob Burnside, things are going pretty well. His friends are behaving, school isn't too bad, his family's getting along, and Janae, the girl of his dreams,...

Sarah Jane Hartwell is back with a whole new grade-school challenge: a class trip to the zoo. After the stress of her last attempt at taking her class on a field trip (seen in First Year Letters), Mrs. Hartwell has a plan for an...

This just in: Breaking News: Bear Alert, told as a breaking TV news report is now in paperback Two bears awaken from hibernation and go to town--literally. During their visit, they eat at a diner, dress up at a department store, and stop a...

An internet-based fantasy from the wild mind of Ralph Steadman. "Some of Steadman's most exuberant drawings ever, in a messy delight of a book."--The Scotsman Who would have guessed that the seemingly mild-mannered dot who holds our internet addresses together actually has a riotous...

A spoiled, greedy, and naughty boy matches wits with Santa Claus in this hilariously "wicked" Christmas read-aloud. Bradley Bartleby is bad. Very bad. In order to avoid Bradley's wrath, his wealthy parents buy him whatever he wants. All the adults in Bradley's life are...

This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations: Don't take a bath with a pig. It loves wallowing in the...

No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day...

This original, fun picture book delightfully describes, in hilarious detail, a small child's idea of utopia. Every two-page spread offers something new about this fantasy life, including, "If kids ruled the world, every day would be your birthday! Birthday cake would be good for...

When an egg arrives on his doorstep, Beast doesn't quite know what to do: feed it? Take it for a nice long walk? Drop it? Doctor Yoko tells him he must keep it warm and just wait, but exactly what he's waiting for is...

Meet the accident-prone T-Rex. First he loses his glasses, then he has one disaster after another: he can't tell his breakfast toast from a slipper, then he mistakes a prehistoric owl for his bath towel A laugh-out-loud tale from legendary picture book duo Willis...

For once, Teddington's wildest family have decided to stay at home and keep their heads down. It isn't always easy hiding tails and fur under clothes, and it's important not to raise suspicion among their human neighbors. But when a very sly fox starts...

From the bestselling duo behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs comes the long-awaited "funny follow-up" (School Library Journal) to Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, which shows us a hilarious new group of animals that shouldn't, ever-ever-ever, dress like humans. Everyone knows that...

Joe and Rob discover they have superpowers in this seventh adventure in the hilarious Bots chapter book series. Many years ago, scientists on Earth sent video satellites out to the end of the universe to see what was hiding in deep space. Now, years...

Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.--soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020 Journey into the world of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with animals. Working with original author Hugh Lofting's son, these...