humorous fiction

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The Wuggie Norple story

1980
The family's new pet kitten grows at such a ridiculous rate that the father must bring home animals to compare its size each day.

Shenandoah Noah

1985
Shenandoah Noah's reputation for laziness gets him into trouble when he catches fleas from his hounds and decides he has to take a bath.

A Christmas story

2003
Ralphie, a nine-year-old boy in 1940s Indiana, dreams of receiving a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas but encounters resistance at every turn when he makes his wish known.

A room with a view

1988
A charming, young English woman is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

Chasing C?zanne

1998
Photographer Andre Kelly, on assignment for "Decorating Quarterly" magazine at the home of one of Cap Ferrat's wealthiest residents, happens to spot a Cezanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck and sets off on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam.

A confederacy of dunces

1987
Pulitzer Prize winning farce, set in New Orleans, telling about Ignatius J. Reilly and his various attempts at employment and one-man wars.

Jingo

a Discworld novel
1999
Discworld's ancient rival cities Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali go to war over an island that rises out of the sea and is claimed by both cities.

A hatful of Seuss

1996
A compilation of five works of Dr. Seuss, including "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," "If I Ran the Zoo," "The Sneetches and Other Stories," "Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book," and "Horton Hears a Who!".

The Templeton twins make a scene

2013
Professor Templeton has been hired by the Thespian Academy of the Performing Arts and Sciences to invent something, anything, important (and profitable) but the thirteen-year-old twins, Abigail and John, are suspicious and determined to investigate.

Scary School

2012
Charles Nukid struggles to adjust to the bizarre and scary teachers and students at the Scary School, including an 850-year-old vampire, Dr. Dragonbreath, Frankenstein's monster, and other surprising residents.

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