Humorous Stories - Kids Fiction

Irresistibly, exuberantly disgusting, a new picture book from the author of Giraffes Can't Dance, with a hero who flosses his teeth with slugs Meet Morris, the world's stinkiest picture book hero. It's been years since he last changed his T-shirt. It's crusty and crawling...

Russell and Shawn call themselves the PS Brothers: P is for poop, S is for scoop, and Brothers is because they're best friends. Scooping poop is the fastest way to earn money to buy a puppy. These two are crazy about dogs. And they're...

A sixth-grade Goth girl who thinks she's a vampire encounters her greatest nemesis when she enrolls at Sunny Hill Middle School in this hilarious and entirely original take on the vampire genre for middle graders. Svetlana Grimm has recently discovered she's a vampire. The...

Three warnings for readers who hate surprises: 1. Beware of slivers, 2. and gamblers, 3. and aces. Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a...

"A clever whodunit featuring believable animal characters in a convincing, recognizable society. A few full-color illustrations from Muravski add to the appeal. Mystery fans (around the world) should rejoice." -- Kirkus In the finale of the four-book Beastly Crimes series, Chief Badger faces his...

Life in the Far Woods tends to be tranquil because the animal denizens are strictly forbidden to kill (or eat ) one another. An elderly detective, Chief Badger, oversees the community and solves its petty crimes, from stolen pine cones to plucked tail feathers....

Bad Nana is a story of a doting grandmother who finds her young charges a delight to babysit. She attempts to please them, and enjoys doing so, but this gets her into hot water with the children's parents. However, Jack has a lovely surprise...

What's worse: the super burp or a super villain? Everyone knows George's best friend, Chris, is a really talented artist. So when the local comic book store promises to publish and sell his Toiletman superhero comic, of course George and his other best friend...

Cork is a short muskrat who likes to help out. Fuzz is a tall possum who likes to help himself. Cork is babysitting a porcupine, and he needs Fuzz's help. Fuzz says he's too busy. But when the porcupine goes missing, it is up...

When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of freeze-dried something....

Zack's classmate Andrew Clancy is always bragging. Everyone knows he's a big liar. But suddenly, Andrew is having trouble hiding the fact that he isn't telling the truth, and every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger-will it ever stop?Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10:...

When Zack bought a dinosaur egg at the flea market, he was given one warning: DO NOT put it in the microwave I'll bet you can guess what happened next...Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448425467ISBN-13: 9780448425467Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2001Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 7.61h x...

One minute, it was an Egyptian cat stature. The next, it was real, live cat with sharp claws. And I have the scratch to prove it This was one trip to the museum I would never forget.Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 044841340XISBN-13: 9780448413402Publisher: Grosset & DunlapLanguage:...

My room is a mess. Now, usually this is not big news. But my clothes have started moving...when I'm not inside them. And the TV is floating across the room Guess what I'm sharing my room with a ghost named Wanda.Author: Dan GreenburgISBN-10: 0448412616ISBN-13:...

Who will win as the curtain closes on the war between the girls and the boys?Summer vacation is almost over and after one year in Buckman it looks like the Malloy girls will be going home to Ohio. The Hatford boys are relieved to...

Shredderman.com just made the national news Everyone is talking about the new cyber-superhero. Oh yeah But now people are dying to know who is behind Shredderman.com. Reporters are snooping all over Cedar Valley Oh no Nolan's parents and even his sidekick, Mr. Green, think...

Oggie Cooder returns . . . this time showing what a party animal he can be (birthday party animal, that is)!It's the party of the year!Oggie Cooder's charving has already taken him to the top of the world. (Charving, if you didn't know, involves...

A sweet sibling story about one fed-up big sister who wants to find a space of her own, perfect for fans of Ashley Spires's The Most Magnificent Thing. Mia loved her big, bright room . . . until she had to share it with...

Illus. in full color. "The tallest person is no taller than a toothpick in the town of Pee Wee, and when Lady Teena is abducted by a dragonfly, a tiny knight, riding his trusty ant, rescues the miniature maiden. This is a hit--an engagingly...

Get ready for killer cupcakes! Deadly donuts! And an outer space adventure with illustrations on almost every page. Astra's family is moving--to a whole new planet. And what does any kid need on moving day? Snacks! But when Astra asks her spaceship's computer to...

Eight-year-old David Bernstein discovers life is much more exciting when he calls himself Ali Baba Bernstein. Only Ali Baba would have dared to grab the class snail and escape to the boys' room for his own magic experiment. David would never have invited every...

Dale E. Basye's most over-the-top (the Big Top, that is) adventure yet is now available in paperback. When Marlo Fauster claims she has switched souls with her brother, she gets sent straight to Fibble, the circle of Heck reserved for liars. But it's true--Milton...

Sammy takes off her high-tops, puts on some party shoes, and steps into a whole lot of trouble. "Sammy's investigation, friendships, family life, and wiseacre narration make this another rollicking addition to the series." --Booklist Sammy should have known better than to think 8th...

What do you want so badly that you can taste it--and can you persuade someone to give it to you? That's the subject of a fourth-grade writing assignment. Calvin wants a dog He reads what he's written to his mom to see just how...

Now in paperback, a spooky and funny middle-grade thriller from the author of The Golden Compass. Can you hear the distant howling of hounds and the thunder of ghostly hooves? It's All Souls' Eve and Zamiel the Demon Huntsman has come to claim his...

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, the uproarious final volume of Jack Henry stories According to his new motto--A WRITER'S JOB IS TO TURN HIS WORST EXPERIENCES INTO MONEY--Jack Gantos's alter ego Jack Henry is going to be filty rich...

A hilarious and action-packed sequel to The League of Unexceptional Children Jonathan Murray: Twelve years old. Wears khaki pants to tell the world he plans on driving the speed limit when he grows up. Saved the world once; it was probably a fluke. Shelley...

Clones on the loose spell double trouble at camp in the third book in a spooky new series that's Goosebumps meets Wayside School Kaitlyn and Noah are arch-enemies at their summer camp, and with good reason. They are rivals in everything, and both are...

The full moon is rising...with a bite Twelve-year-old Emma is excited to spend a weekend away at best friend Samantha's house for an epic sleepover with Sam and her out-of-town cousins. But things take a turn for the spooky when Emma's peculiar new book,...

Lunchbox felt odd. He wondered how he had known how to open the place where all the yummy stuff was kept. He wondered why he seemed to know so much about these strange animals he was with. He wondered how he knew he was...

Know Your Star-FightersBeamer: California transplant to a weird Midwestern town. Feels like he's living on another planet. Scilla: the gangly tomboy next door. Ghoulie: the class nerd. Add one spaceship-shaped tree house capable of taking them most anywhere in the universe. Hop in and...

Know Your Star-FightersBeamer: California transplant to a weird Midwestern town. Feels like he's living on another planet. Scilla: the gangly tomboy next door. Ghoulie: the class nerd. Add one spaceship-shaped tree house capable of taking them most anywhere in the universe. Hop in and...

It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for. Before she can make...

Responding to disgruntled dogs nationwide, Mr. Mutt, Canine Counselor, has solutions to the most sticky dilemmas. But Mr. Mutt has his own problem to solve: the cat (aka The Queen), who has her own idea of who's in charge. Now Mr. Mutt is the...

Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Little Wee Bear go out for a morning walk, hoping by the time they get home their porridge will cool to the perfect temperature. But they don't realize a jump-roping, curly-haired terror named Goldilocks is on the way. Things...

On a hot, hot day, a good old dog just has to get some relief Around the steamy country lanes, he sniffs and searches until he finds a chauffeur washing a shiny car, a baker scrubbing some sticky pans, and a florist spraying a...

American millionaire Hiram C. Hopgood will stop at nothing to make his daughter, Helen, happy--even if it means buying her an ancient Scottish castle and shipping it back to Texas. Assembling the castle isn't a problem for the oil tycoon . . . it's...

Someone stole the key to the Black Cat Bookstore Lucky for the store's owner, Mr. Brown, his clever cat, Cobweb, is on the case. Cobweb has a plan to scare the burglar away, and the ghost who lives in the bookstore is happy to...

William is getting ready for his bath when the faucet breaks, sending him and his tub surfing through the building! On his wet ride, he collects a strange fleet in his wake -- from Uncle Nash, who sits in the trash, to Little Dottie,...

A collection of 41 folk rhymes, taunts, and insults that have been chanted, sung, and shouted by generations of children throughout the United States. 'Children will appreciate the humor of the rhymes and the illustrations. Another I Can Read hit.' --SLJ. Author: Alvin SchwartzISBN-10:...

"A spirited version of the story of the gingerbread boy." --New York Times"A smooth and sophisticated version of the famous tale." --The Horn BookIn this modern retelling of a nursery classic, Caldecott-winning illustrator Richard Egielski adds an urban twist to a well-loved tale. This...

R. R. Pottle the Third has a truly wonderful, extra-extraordinary collection of hats. But happiness eludes him. He is lonely and dreams of meeting a perfect wife ' who will, of course, be wearing a perfect hat.One day, a day so bad that R....

Paddington 2 comes to theaters on January 12, 2018, with all of the friendship, humor, and marmalade that made the first film a critical and box office hit Paddington has been in London for a few months now and has settled into his new...

Perfect for fans of Big Nate and Dog Man Two appetizing Stick Dog books by the hilarious Tom Watson in one delectable box Stick Dog and the gang are hungrier than ever and will do almost anything to get their paws on hamburgers, hot...

For fans of the bestselling phenomenon The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, Katie Blackburn's Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep is an innovative, beautiful, and rhythmic picture book about a little bear named Dozy who wanted to sleep but didn't know how...Combining...

The Addams Family meets Despicable Me in the first book of this new trilogy, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Pseudonymous Bosch The Crim family is full of notorious criminals. Notoriously inept, that is. Uncle Knuckles once tried to steal a carnival. Great-Uncle...

Perfect for fans of Goodnight, Already and You Will Be My Friend, this is a classic and quirky story of finding friendship where you least expect it, from the author/illustrator of The Blobfish Book and Shark Detective. Karl and Hazel are polar bears. They...

Paddington has warmed the hearts of generations of readers with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures. This edition of the classic novel contains the original text by Michael Bond and illustrations by Peggy Fortnum and R.W. Alley. Somehow Paddington always manages to find...

When Paddington returns from his trip to Peru, he doesn't waste any time getting back to business. The Stock Exchange, the ballet, the barber's shop, Mr. Curry's kitchen...nothing is safe when Paddington gets to work.First published in 1966, Paddington at Work is the seventh...

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!In this seventh book in the My Weirdest School series, it's picture day at Ella Mentry School! This year, Mr. Klutz has hired a weird photographer, Ms. Joni. She...