humorous fiction

Over the course of several lives, a dog named Bailey is reborn as a puppy time and again, progressing through each life while seeking to understand his purpose in the world. Along the way, he comments on the nature of his human owners and the connection between man and dog.

In the near future, Zoey Ashe and her smelly cat find themselves the obsession of an Internet celebrity who decides to stalk and kill her to the delight of a million viewers watching online. As Zoey races to stay alive, she is joined by some unlikely allies and together they try to save the world from the schemes of a maniac named Molech.

PJ Wallis has had incredible success with her novels about Monica, a young Manhattan women living life her way. With the commercial success and blockbuster films that have come from the books, everyone seems to want PJ to keep writing more Monica books. But PJ is ready for something else. And it will take some serious work to achieve the reinvention of herself she's hoping for.

Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp.

Encourages the reader to predict what will happen and keep turning pages as a face is splattered with a pie, a sandwich, and more.

A graphic novel chapter book details the secret lives of class pets who struggle with different ideas about freedom and happiness while sharing many haphazard adventures.

Sixth-grader Big Nate is a winner, at least in his own mind, so when things start to go wrong, like his dream girl moving three thousand miles away, and how his soccer team manages to lose to a school with a sixty-game winless streak, this superstar feels not so super.

An overprotective mother, an unfriendly older sister, and a friend-stealing school bully are some of the challenges faced by thoughtful ten-year-old Ben Hunter of Filmland, California.

Amelia has entered the eighth grade and boys, friends, and school dances become very important to her.

"Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until the seventeen-year-old Polina arrives at the hospital. At first, Ivan resents Polina. She steals his books. She challenges his routine. The nurses like her. But eventually, he is drawn to her and the two forge a romance that is tenuous and beautiful and everything they never dared dream of. And now Ivan wants something, whereas before he survived by being utterly detached from things and people: Ivan wants Polina to live"--Dust jacket.