humorous fiction

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Fangs aren't everything

1985
Victim of an ancient family curse that turns him into a wolfman when the moon is full, a young man tries to hide that fact from his friends.

Chicken trek

the third strange thing that happened to Oscar Noodleman
1989
Oscar travels around the United States in a Picklemobile eating Chicken in the Bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.

The big sneeze

1997
A farmer sneezes a fly off his nose and causes havoc in the barnyard.

There's a yak in my bed

2005
Ted wants to get rid of the yak he found in his bed, but first he must find out what it wants and how he can help.

A hic-cup cake

2002
Bobby tries all kinds of bizarre things to get rid of his hiccups.

Desdemona-- twelve going on desperate

1988
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.

The killing joke

2005
Guy Fletcher discovers that making a joke is no laughing matter when he attempts to trace a lame joke overheard at a local pub all the way back to its original source--a quest that takes him across the United Kingdom and into contact with a humorless Hungarian dentist, a troop of hyperactive boy scouts, an army of nuns, and other odd and sinister characters.

Hogula, dread pig of night

2002
Although he lives high-on-the-hog in his castle on Grimy Porkchop Hill, Hogula is unhappy because he has no friends--until he meets Elvis Ann, Dread Queen of Kissyface.

The Socksnatchers

2005
Whenever a sock disappears in the Perkins household, the Socksnatchers who live in the cellar unbeknownst to the family members, are preparing a tasty meal.

Kay Thompson's Eloise

the ultimate edition
2000
Presents four stories in one volume that tell of the adventures of Eloise, a precocious six-year-old girl who lives at New York's Plaza Hotel and sometimes travels with her nanny; and includes information about the author and the illustrator of the Eloise stories.

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