Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

Born between a board fence and a set of trash cans, the hero of this absorbing novel by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry is a lowly stray dog.

Nurk is a quiet homebody of a shrew.

Never seen a jackalope?

It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.

If Howard had known the old hag was a witch, he never would have taunted her.

Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball.

The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowrys popular Gooney Bird series!

In this Newbery Honorwinning novel, Gary D.

Irrepressible Anastasia is in junior high now and participating in the "e;Values"e; curriculum through which students learn to make moral decisions.

Lois Lowry's Gooney Bird chapter book series is accessible and easy to read and will appeal to fans of Junie B.

If you ever went to Catholic school, or never went to Catholic school, you need to read this funny, smart, kid-true book.

Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl bully in school.

In this chapter book for young readers,June is thrilled to get a new neighbor: Mae!

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey.

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Now that he has become the NYPDs youngest crime-solving hero, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah are ready to relax on a family vacation to Mexico.

Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts'lab and sabotaging their experiments, putting everyone at the Amazing Automated Inn at risk.

Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest tomeet some of the engineers and scientistsworking to harness the punishing force of our oceans, one of the natures powerful and renewable energy sources.

A perfect combination of adventure, humor, and pure imagination!

With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world.

Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story.

In this funny, action-packed middle grade novel from the author of the American Girl Luciana books,Alison gets invited to be on her dad's reality show, Survivor Guy, and faces important realities about her family, self-reliance, and learning to work together with friends.

Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block.

Carlos isn't sure how he feels about the news that his cousin Bernardo will be joining his class at Carver Elementary.

Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren't Fair.

Garland, Derby, and Triple Clark spend each season traveling highways and byways in their Rambleruntil summer, when small-town Ridge Creek, Virginia, calls them back.

When Isabella Antonelli becomes an overnight YouTube sensation in a documentary detailing her REAL, non-royalItalianAmerican family, she needs to figure out a way to tell everyone at her fancy new school the truth about her familyor come up with some better lies.

It's 1920s Chicago-the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone-and it's unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner.

Praise for the Gadgets and Gears series: ';Fast paced and funny .

Its his senior year and Will Shea has conned his way into one of the countrys most elite prep schools.

When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him.

Putting the dead in deadlineTo Bee or not to Bee?

Grace has lots of new and exciting things to share in the latest addition to the Just Grace series!

Art, mystery, fun and friendship,combine in thisillustrated middle grade seriesdebut.

Richard can't waitto show off hisflat-ground Olliesata friend'sbirthday party at the skate park, but a note home from his teacher threatens to ruin his plans.

Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs.

Its March!

"e;The second volume in The Chronicles of Kazam is just as full of inspired silliness as the first.

What will Nikki and Deja do when their beloved teacher is out and a clueless substitute takes her place?

It's time for the school fair, and Just Grace's class has chosen a cupcake theme.

Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about hisdead-before-he-was-born dad.

The sixth book in the SUPER graphic novel-like series for readers aged 7+ from the amazingly talented illustrator and author Sophy Henn!

Argues that international community can exist, and examines the possibilities for peaceful relations between states.

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A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children aged 3-11 learning English as a foreign or second language.