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Small Image Melonhead 2009
by Katy Kelly, illus. by Gillian Johnson

*Video Booktalk*
Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a 10-year-old with a knack for getting into trouble, has problems including hiding his pet snake from his mom, and coming up with an invention for the school science contest.
210 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Oggie Cooder 2008
by Sarah Weeks

*Video Booktalk*
Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

Small Image The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep 2007
by John Hulme and Michael Wexler

*Video Booktalk*
Book 1 of the Seems series. 12-year-old Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems, a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running and sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But a Glitch in the Sleep Department could ruin everything if Becker can't Fix it.
288 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Funny

Small Image Billy Hooten: Owlboy 2007
by Tom Sniegoski

Meet Billy Hooten, AKA Owlboy, a quickthinking, goggle-and-feather-wearing superhero who protects the bizarre and monstrous citizens of Monstros City, a city that exists under Billy's hometown.
256 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Monsters, Parallel Universe, Funny

Small Image Soupy Saturdays With the Pain and the Great One 2007
by Judy Blume, illus. by James Stevenson

Alternating chapters told from the point of view of Jacob AKA "first grade pain" and his sister AKA "the great one".
107 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Brothers, Sisters

Small Image Elijah of Buxton 2007
by Christopher Paul Curtis

In 1859, 11-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the South, uses his wits to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who stole money that was saved to buy a family's freedom.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  19th Century, Funny, Slavery

Small Image The Wednesday Wars 2007
by Gary D. Schmidt

Holling's 7th grade year is off to a bad start when he realizes that his teacher hates him - for no reason.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel 2007
by Kaye Umansky, illus. by Scott Nash

Book 2 of the Solomon Snow series.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Small Image The Talented Clementine 2007
by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee

Sequel to Clementine.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image Toad Away 2006
by Morris Gleitzman

*Video Booktalk*
Limpy the Toad has a vision. A world where cane toads and humans play mudslides together. And share their slug sauce and maggot moisturizer. But how does a young cane toad discover the ancient secret of living in peace with humans?
208 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Edgar & Ellen: Under Town 2006
by Charles Ogden, illus. by Rick Carton

Edgar and Ellen encounter a new foe, an unknown prankster who's stealing their best schemes! To stop the copycat capers the twins must descend into the sewers, but what they discover there is stranger than anything they could have imagined.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Twins, Funny

Small Image Clementine 2006
by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee

Third-grader, Clementine has a big heart, a creative spirit, and a talent for trouble.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image Key Lardo: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2006
by Bruce Hale

Chet and Natalie have met their sleuthing match, and boy, are they jealous. A new detective has arrived at Emerson Hicky Elementary. His name's Bland. James Bland. But when Bland suddenly goes missing, the blame falls squarely on Chet.
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Possum Always Rings Twice: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2006
by Bruce Hale

Someone is sending school council candidates ominous threats, and a certain not-so-smooth-talking fox is hitting the hallways to drum up fanatic support for his flashy campaign. This presidential race is getting fishy. Could it be that someone is trying to rig the election?
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Pond Scum 2005
by Alan Silberberg

Oliver is miserable in his new home in the sticks, until he finds a magical amulet that allows him to talk to animals and transform into animals.
284 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Talking Animals

Small Image The Scarecrow and his Servant 2005
by Philip Pullman, illus. by Peter Bailey

A scarecrow is truck by lightning and comes to life. He hires a young orphan, Jack, to be his servant, and Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers: battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Airball: My Life in Briefs 2005
by L. D. Harkrader

Uncoordinated Kansas 7th grader, Kirby Nickel, braves his coach's anger and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he never knew.
198 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Small Image Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time 2005
by Lisa Yee

Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Small Image Cupidity 2005
by Caroline Goode

*Video Booktalk*
High school senior, Laura Sweeney has never had a date. She needs a proven "get the guy" strategy. Luckily she knows exactly the expert to call. He's a matchmaking mastermind who actually has the bow and arrow to prove it. Let's just call him...Cupid.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

Small Image Diary of a Fairy Godmother 2005
by Esme Raji Codell

*Video Booktalk*
Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches

Small Image Girl, 15, Charming but Insane 2004
by Sue Limb

British teen, Jess, has a hopeless crush on Prince William look-alike, Ben Jones, but she thinks he likes her perfect and beautiful best friend, Flora.
240 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Funny

Small Image The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow 2004
by Kaye Umansky

*Video Booktalk*
Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus star, and several Orphans.
289 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Small Image Never Mind: A Twin Novel 2004
by Avi and Rachel Vail

*Video Booktalk*
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Twins, Funny, Popularity

Small Image Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2004
by Bruce Hale

Right in the middle of a run-of-the-mill case, the powers that be finger Chet's fine-feathered partner, Natalie Attired, as a no-goodnik blackmailer and boot her out of Emerson Hicky quicker than you can say, "Boot her out of Emerson Hicky."
136 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Give My Regrets to Broadway: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2004
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko can't sing, dance, or act. He can't even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose's musical version of Shakespeare's Omlet, Prince of Denver? A new case, naturally. The original leading man has disappeared, and something smells rotten in the realm of Ratnose.
115 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Trouble is my Beeswax: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2003
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie blow the lid off a cheating ring in Mr. Ratnose's classroom.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Malted Falcon: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2003
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and track down the winning ticket for the biggest, chocolatiest, most gut-busting dessert ever, the Malted Falcon.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Vampire High 2003
by Douglas Rees

It doesn't take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don't like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. These kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit in, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious and some funny consequences.
240 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Funny, High School, Vampires

Small Image Not Just a Witch 2003
by Eva Ibbotson, illus. by Kevin Hawkes

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image Once Upon a Marigold 2002
by Jean Ferris

A young man leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father the king.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny, Love, Princesses

Small Image This Gum's For Hire: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2002
by Bruce Hale

To save his own skin, private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players.
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Hamster of the Baskervilles: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2002
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko doesn't believe in the supernatural. But when a teacher reports seeing a monster by the light of a full moon, Chet and his sleek-winged partner, Natalie Attired, must answer the burning question: Is there a vicious, supernatural werehamster on the loose?
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Farewell My Lunchbag: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2001
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than he can chew.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Big Nap: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2001
by Bruce Hale

Someone is turning the students at Emerson Hickey Elementary into zombies, and it's up to fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko to find out who.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image See You Later, Gladiator 2000
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Adam McCauley

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Funny, Time Travel

Small Image Four Stupid Cupids 2000
by Gregory Maguire

*Video Booktalk*
The students' scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine's Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Love

Small Image The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2000
by Bruce Hale

When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Mystery of Mr. Nice: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2000
by Bruce Hale

When the principal of his school begins acting nice to him, Chet Gecko realizes that he is an imposter and so sets out to find the real one.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image It's All Greek to Me 1999
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave like the characters in the trio's class play.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology, Time Travel

Small Image Which Witch? 1999
by Eva Ibbotson, illus. by Annabel Large

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
249 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image Holes 1998
by Louis Sachar

In the wrong place at the wrong time, Stanley Yelnats is wrongly sent to a horrible correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, buried treasure, and a new sense of himself.
192 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now 1997
by Dan Greenburg

Part of the Zack Files series. Zack and his father go to Hawai'i where Zack has an unfortunate encounter with an angry volcano goddess.
57 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Funny, Volcanoes

Small Image Tut Tut 1996
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. The Time Warp Trio ends up in Ancient Egypt.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Ancient Egypt, Time Travel

Small Image 2095 1995
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Future, Time Travel

Small Image Thwonk 1995
by Joan Bauer

*Video Booktalk*
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

Small Image The Secret of Platform 13 1994
by Eva Ibbotson

Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins a wizard, a fey, and an ogre on a quest from their magical kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Small Image The Prince of the Pond 1992
by Donna Jo Napoli, illus. by Judy Schachner

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

Small Image The Witches 1983, 1998 reissue
by Roald Dahl, illus. by Quentin Blake

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image Half Magic 1954
by Edward Eager

When Jane finds a magic charm that grants exactly half of any wish, her brother Mark and her sisters Katharine and Martha take turns making double wishes, leading to results that are twice as unpredictable and hilarious.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

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