humorous fiction

Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.

After returning from London, the three Incorrigible children and their governess, Miss Penelope Lumley, resume their normal routine while Penelope continues to uncover information about her past. When a noted explorer's prized ostrich gets lost in the woods, the Incorrigibles lead the search to recover it, but Penelope fears that allowing them to return to the wilderness will cause them to revert to their wolf-like behaviors.

Penelope takes the three incorrigible children to Brighton in hopes of discovering how to end the wolfish curse on the Ashton family before the newest Ashton baby arrives.

Miss Penelope Lumley, governess to the three Incorrigible children who were raised by wolves, is invited to speak at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. The academy's board of trustees asks Penelope to demonstrate the academic progress of her three charges to evaluate her Swanburne education and determine the future of the school. Now Penelope's job with the Incorrigibles is at risk.

Martha the speaking dog must teach her friend Truman how to catch a ball before his big softball game.

When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.

Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.

Two hungry wolves in disguise attempt to raid a sheep farm.

Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.

When her class splits into two clubs, the Puddle Jumpers and the Puddle Stompers, Amelia Bedelia is in a pickle, because both groups want her to join them.