Scieszka, Jon

When Jack Truck wakes everyone up and calls for them to line up, Pete is left out until they finally manage to find a place for him.

A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey, and the world's largest pool of chocolate milk.

A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.

Once again, three friends are sent back in time by a magic book and find themselves prisoners of the evil pirate Blackbeard.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.

The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.

When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety, which becomes a real curse.

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

There's something for every guy in this collection of stories, mini-memoirs, advice, poems, comics and drawings chosen by readers on the Guys Read web site.

Blends a warp-speed pace with humor that ranges from brainy riddles to lowbrow upchuck jokes.