humorous fiction

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The Twits

2007
Two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

A is for musk ox

2012
Musk Ox takes over an alphabet book, explaining to his friend Zebra why almost every letter can be used to describe musk oxen.

The hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher goes to school

2009
A young girl's talented but untamed tresses do not impress her strict first-grade teacher, who has rules for everything, including hair.

Extra yarn

2012
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.

One cool friend

2012
Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

Chocolate fever

2006
From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.

If this is love, I'll take spaghetti

1983
Nine short stories explore the trials and tribulations of teenage life.

Olivia Kidney

2004
Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a psychic, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual characters.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1981
A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.

The little red pen

2011
When a little red pen accidentally falls into the waste basket while trying to correct papers all by herself, the other classroom supplies must cooperate to rescue her.

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