juvenile fiction / humorous stories

In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game.".

It is not always easy for a dinosaur to learn how to be kind, but with a liitle practice, and keeping other people firmly in mind, he can become a one-of-a-kind, very kind dinosaur.

Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and finally getting a cellphone of her own; but after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well--but trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing--and soon it seems like everybody is mad at her, and the cellphone of her dreams is getting further and further away.

The story of Bing Bong, the imaginary friend of a girl named Riley.

Instead of fighting each other, Jinx and her little brother The Doom spend their days fighting crime, protecting the planet, defending the innocent, and taking lunch breaks.

The three little Superpigs have been invited to perform at Fairyland's Halloween parade, but before they get started they find out that a wicked witch has stolen all the Halloween candy; they track her to the gingerbread house--but when they enter they are confronted not by the witch but by an old foe.

A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.

"After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare"--Provided by publisher.

"Third-grader Richard and his friends are four days from earning a pizza party for good behavior when a very strict substitute suspects that some of them have been cheating"--Provided by publisher.

Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.