humorous fiction

Presents contemporary versions of ten classic fairy tales featuring the characters of Little Red Riding Hood, King Midas, Sleeping Beauty, Goldy Locks, and others.

Trapped in a dead Iowa community with no decent boys her age, twelve-year-old Dagmar invents a fantasy boyfriend, who gets her in terrible trouble when he argues with her and makes her talk back to him in front of family and friends.

The members of the He-Man Women Haters Club attempt to restore it to its former glory when a rival club with female members emerges.

The goal of the He-Man Women Haters Club, to avoid females at all costs, is threatened when one of the members betrays the others.

A tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, in which the four Willoughby children set out to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.

Relates humorous episodes from life in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, a building that was accidently erected sideways, with one classroom on each story.

A boy sets out to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days in order to win a bet.

Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon.

Mack MacAvoy, an average-seeming twelve-year-old boy who happens to have special powers, travels to China with aims to assemble an elite team of his peers to help him thwart the evil Pale Queen, but to succeed Mack must avoid being killed by Princess Risky and figure out why Paddy Nine-Iron Trout is after the Magnificent 12.

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.