Funny Stories
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These humorous stories are sure to make you laugh out loud!
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Abbott, Bud Who's On First? Abbott and Costello's classic comedy routine, reissued for children, features a bear and a rabbit trying to determine the baseball player covering each base. 2013 Easy Picture Book |
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Beaty, Andrea Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies At Camp Whatsitooya, twins Joules and Kevin face off against large, rabbit-like creatures from the Mallow Galaxy who thrive on sugar, but are not above hypnotizing and eating human campers. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Blume, Judy Friend or Fiend? with the Pain the Great One First-grader Jake The Pain and his sister, third-grader Abigail The Great One have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday. 2009 Children's Fiction Book BLUME Other formats available |
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Bruel, Nick Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats bathe and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water. 2008 Children's Fiction Book |
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Buckley, Michael NERDS : National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world. 2009 Children's Fiction Book BUCKLEY Other formats available |
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Child, Lauren Clarice Bean Don't Look Now Clarice Bean has a list of things to worry about. How does she handle them? 2007 Children's Fiction Book CHILD |
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Cotler, Stephen L. Cheesie Mack is Not a Genius or Anything Ronald 'Cheesie' Mack relates events he and his best friend, Georgie, experience as fifth grade comes to an end and their summer plans are drastically changed, due in part to an old, possibly valuable coin that may belong to the mysterious inhabitants of a place they call The Haunted Toad. 2011 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank Cosmic 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good. 2010 Children's Fiction Book COTTREL Other formats available |
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DiCamillo, Kate Bink & Gollie Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Greenwald, Tom Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading When it comes to actually reading, Charlie counts on his friend Timmy McGibney to do the reading for him in exchange for an ice cream sandwich. But when Timmy decides that his price has gone up to three ice cream sandwiches, Charlie Joe Jackson is faced with two very unappealing options: let himself be blackmailed or read an entire book. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Gutman, Dan The Homework Machine Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments. 2006 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hale, Shannon Rapunzel's Revenge Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel. 2008 Children's Fiction Book HALE |
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Horvath, Polly Mr. and Mrs. Bunny-- Detectives Extraordinaire! Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Ibbotson, Eva The Ogre of Oglefort For excitement-hungry orphan Ivo, a mission to save Princess Mirella from the dreaded Ogre of Oglefort is a dream come true. Together with a hag, a wizard, and a troll, Ivo sets out, ready for adventure. But when they get to the ogre's castle, the rescuers are in for a surprise: the princess doesn't need saving, but the depressed ogre does! 2011 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Jennings, Patrick We Can't All be Rattlesnakes When Crusher the snake is captured, her only thought is to escape but as time goes by and she befriends the other inmates of the "zoo," she realizes that freedom also means leaving companions behind. 2009 Children's Fiction Book |
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Jonell, Lynne Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls The evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges, and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her. 2010 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Kelly, Katy Melonhead In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam Melonhead Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention. 2009 Children's Fiction Book KELLY Other formats available |
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Klise, Kate Regarding the Bathrooms : a Privy to the Past In this novel told through letters, newspaper articles, and police reports, a middle school principal's bathroom renovation project leads to the discovery of stolen Roman antiquities. 2006 Children's Fiction Book |
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Korman, Gordon Swindle After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back. 2008 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Korman, Gordon. Ungifted Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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