humorous fiction

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The war with Mr. Wizzle

1982
Mr. Wizzle comes to MacDonald Hall, bringing a new computer, a dress code, and a demerit system. The students respond by forming a coalition to resolve their problems.

Henry Reed's think tank

1986
When Henry and Midge set themselves up as consultants for the residents of Grover's Corner, they get into a lot of trouble themselves before eventually solving the problems presented to them.

Henry Reed's journey

1963
The journal from Henry's trip across the country with the Glass family, telling of the sights they saw and the strange things which resulted when Henry and Midge became involved in innocent and blameless goings-on.

Henry Reed's big show

1970
A teenager summering in Grover's Corner, New Jersey tries various moneymaking endeavors and finally runs a rodeo.

The mysterious disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)

1971
The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve.

Desdemona, twelve going on desperate

1986
Calamity stalks a seventh grader in the form of social disasters, and throughout it all, to her great embarrassment, she keeps running into the most attractive boy in school.

Sizzling sixteen

2010
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula, motivated only by a strong desire to save their jobs, set out to rescue their boss and Stephanie's cousin, Vinny, who has been kidnapped by the mob for not paying his gambling debts.

Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

confessions of Georgia Nicolson
2006
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Galleta para perros

2008
A little girl eats a dog biscuit by mistake and worries about the consequences. Includes recipe for "human-being treats.".

Two to the fifth

2008
A troupe of traveling players, led by the half-human playwright Cyrus the Cyborg and including three young princesses, are assembled by the Good Magician Humfrey who wants them to attract the attention of Ragna the Roc and stop him from taking over Xanth, but a spy among them might ruin the plan.

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