humorous fiction

The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.

When a proper king and queen ask their fairy godmother for a child, they find themselves gifted instead with a baby goat.

If Jake's teacher, Mr. Hyde, gets too excited, he transforms into the misbehaving Creature, and when the class competes in the Whiz-BANG Science Fair, the students have to find a way to keep Creature's mischief from causing havoc.

Jake and his friends are playing in the local soccer tournament, and from the start everything goes wrong: they end up playing in banana suits (do not ask), Amelia, the fifth grade bully, forces her way on to the team and gets a yellow card, Jake injures his ankle--but worst of all, the chaos causes Mr. Hyde to turn into his alter ego, the Creature, a nasty imp bent on mischief.

On his first day at his new school Jake Jones meets the new teacher, Mr. Hyde (very nice, but turns into a naughty imp when upset), Mrs. Blount, the principal (a nasty tyrant whose punishments involve hard labor), and his wild classmates in 5B--and since it is almost impossible not to break at least one of the 142 school rules (or all of them) he soon finds his school life descending into chaos.

Billy Sure, a twelve-year-old inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc., is loved by everyone for his ingenious inventions. His latest, the Cat-Dog Translator, seemed like a great idea when he came up with it. But as the beloved family pets begin revealing embarrassing secrets about their owners, it becomes clear that some things are better left unsaid - or unheard, as the case may be.

Genius kid inventor Billy Sure has created Sure Things, Inc., his business where he invents new and awesome things. He invents the "Best Test," a test designed to help kids discover what they are best at doing. However, when Billy takes the test himself, its results show he is not the best at inventing, and what he is really best at has nothing to do with invention. The future of Sure Things, Inc. is at stake.

Twelve-year-old Billy and his best friend Manny become entrepreneurs after launching a product known as the "All Ball," which can transform into different sports balls, but a major secret Billy is keeping has the potential to destroy their success and expose Billy as a fraud.

After his time-traveling deeds cause the destruction of the world by preventing Harold and George from creating Captain Underpants, Tippy Tinkletrousers tries to use his time machine to correct the situation, but it proves to be difficult to fix.