humorous fiction

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as the director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, but she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg.".

Pursued by their former crewmate, turned enemy, the space penguins splash-land on an ocean planet, and find themselves in the tentacles of a monstrous squid--can they find a way to extract themselves and their ship before it is too late?.

Charlie has looked forward to being in the fourth-grade play, but is not at all happy when Mrs. Burke assigns him the role of the Nice Gnome.

Not long after his thirteenth birthday, Ed Bagley wakes up and discovers he is a zombie, but while he is excited for the chance to "reinvent" himself, Ed finds life as a zombie dangerous, as his own disembodied arm seems determined to kill him, and Ed is forced to rely on Clive, a skeleton, and Max, a werewolf, to avoid dying a second time.

When Darren Stonkadopolis claims he's had a close encounter of the stinky kind, the other Fart Squad members think he's full of hot air. But then the alien Stink Weeds descend, and the Fart Squad is forced to smell the truth. It'll take some weed whacking, some stealthy stench tactics, and buttfulls of gas so smelly they'd make the sun blush to stop these mutant extraterrestrial vegetables from universal stinkination.

Max, a lovable spaniel, enters a dog show and dives, bakes, and performs his way to the winner's circle.

Kaitlyn Nichols' desire for mystery and excitement is more than fulfilled when her father, a secret agent, brings home a cute seventeen-year-old boy who is slated to enter the Witness Protection Program.

The Fart Squad is back, and this time the flatulent fifth graders will have to take on a prehistoric fart monster... FARTASAURUS REX!.

Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and misses.