humorous fiction

Presents young readers with a variety of often silly choices, such as living with a gerbil in a cage or with a rabbit in a hutch and being chased by a crab, a bull, a lion, or wolves.

Pelly feels miserable because she looks different from her Martian classmates, but a glamorous opera singer who visits her class shows Pelly that her differences make her special.

A dog chases a squirrel into an elementary school one night, creating monumental chaos.

Mr. Krabs decides to hold a dance competition to bring more customers to Krusty Krab, and while everyone gets out their dancing shoes, SpongeBob tries to help Patrick get ready for the competition.

As they seem to be at the bottom of every prank at Macdonald Hall, the headmaster decides to separate roomates Bruno and Boots, but to little avail.

Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.

In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.

Lobo, a Chihuahua from New York City who feels he is truly a wolf in an undersized body, goes to Yellowstone National Park with his mistress and dreams of running wild with his wolf brothers.

Four separate stories tell, in words and cartoons, the surprising history and activities of the ordinary backpack.

Daniel Funk, who lives with three sisters, his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, has always wanted a brother, and when he suddenly shrinks to the size of a toe, he discovers that he has a twin brother who is the same size.