humorous fiction

Against her parents' wishes, Ava adopts a tiny kitten and tries to keep it hidden, but soon Itty Bitty is enormous and frisky, which leads to big trouble.

A vain young frog named Antoinette tries to become part of the famous French painter Claude Monet's masterpieces at his pond in Giverny, with humorous results.

"Two polar-opposite eight year olds who become summer best friends find their friendship threatened by the uncertainties of a new school year"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a variation on the classic rhyme about an old mermaid who swallowed a shark, a squid, a tropical fish, an eel, a crab, a sea star, and a clam.

Piggie introduces her reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.

Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.

A child provides insights, based on personal experience, into everything that can go wrong if one brings an alligator to school for show-and-tell.

When Mrs. Noodlekugel's four mice make a terrible mess with cookie crumbs at tea, she decides to take them on the bus to visit the eye doctor and invites Nick and Maxine to come along.

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie...and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg's troubles?.

"Glip! Glop! Gloop! What looks like dog vomit, smells like a corpse flower, and stars in one of the scariest movies Stink Moody has ever seen? Is it the Blob? The Glob? Son of Glob? No, it's...slime mold! Stink may be a super science geek, but even Dr. Stinkelstein is feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources--so who says they aren't smart enough to take over Stink's pets, Stink's room, Stink himself, and ...the world? Vintage horror flicks meet classic Star Trek episodes as a wary Stink (with some help from Dr. Judy Moody) comes to know and love an unusual new pet in a hilarious adventure that sneaks in factoids and comics at each chapter's end. Aaagh! Crawl slowly for your lives! Stink kicks off his second decade with a super-funny homage to an oozy-goozy organism"--From the publisher's web site.