Doris the monster is getting ready for a party. A slumber party! Have you ever wondered what monsters do for fun? Are monsters afraid of the light? Doris and her monster friends sing, play Simon Says, read fortunes, munch snacks, and try to stay up late.
Book Genre: Humor and Comedy
Elizabeth
Constance is sure that her mean parents do not want her and her huge cat Tiny to be happy. Her parents, teachers, and principal plot together to send Constance away to a boarding school for bad kids. Her parents say it is for her own good, but Constance knows better. At the strict new school,...
Elizabeth
A squirrel hurries to bury acorns for the winter. Gather! Dig! Bury! Acorns are hidden everywhere. Then a bear appears! Does he want the squirrel? Does he want the acorns? Squirrel is so surprised to see the bear. Now where are those buried acorns?
Elizabeth
Ned the worm has found the perfect home Until it begins to rot! Where will Ned live now? Join him as he looks for a new place to live, makes new friends, and learns what doesn't make a good home.
Becker
Nina Khan is the only Asian, the only Muslim, at her small town high school in Deer Hook, NY. She has good friends, but as she gets older, it feels like the differences between her and them get more and more pronounced. They're allowed to date. She's not. Their free time is spent at high school...
Gwen
Sal and Frankie have done it all. Now they're going to try to do nothing. But Frankie can't quite do nothing because if he imagines he's a statue, he also imagines pigeons all over him. If Frankie imagines he's the Empire State Building, he imagines King Kong climbing up him and he just has to...
Becker
Ari wants to do something to stand out during his junior year at Gittelman Jewish Day School. He's been wingman to his best friend, Jonas (who can get anything he wants from anyone--girl, boy, teacher--with just a smile) for too long. His parents just want him to excel at his Jewish day school,...
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Gwen
Olivia is really pissed at her dad for cheating and has had it with men. Since she's at an art and drama camp for the summer, she decides to vent her frustrations by writing a musical, Castration Celebration. Her vow to ignore men all summer backfires, though, when the charming and handsome Max...
Gwen
Each of the kids in Ms. Breakbone's class has a special talent or interest - but she calls them all dunderheads! When Ms. Breakbone unfairly confiscates a present Junkyard has for his mother, the Dunderheads unite to get even and get it back. Using each of their special skills, the Dunderheads...
Liberty
The Pirate Captain and his crew of scalawags are at it again in this fourth installment of the diversionary Adventures With series. Having failed, once again, to win the Pirate of the Year award, the Pirate Captain decides to try his hand at beekeeping and politics, with tragic results. This is...
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Gwen
Melonhead (otherwise known as Adam Melon) always seems to be getting into trouble because he forgets to tell his mom something, like that he has a pet snake, or that he takes a shortcut home on the rooftops of his neighbors' houses. When an invention contest is announced at school, Melonhead and...
Gwen
This is an adventurous, mysterious, and real story about a boy named Dave and his talking gecko, Sticky. No, really, it's a true story! Sticky leads Dave to a scary old mansion that is booby-trapped with hollow walls and shrunken heads. They are there to steal a magic Aztec armband that is...
Gwen
Wink is in ninja school where he is supposed to learn to be silent and stealthy. No one is supposed to see a ninja - but if no one can see him, how can anyone know what a great ninja Wink can be? Wink loves attention! Every day Wink is sent home from ninja school to his grandmother who tries to...
Gwen
Weasel was a mean, sneaky, nasty, bully. All his sneakiness made Weasel very rich and he had a castle and a fancy car. When Weasel went to throw a big, important party to show off all his stuff, nobody came! How can a super sneaky weasel make friends? Find out in this very funny book.
Gwen
I see a duck over there. No it's a rabbit. It has a bill! Those are its ears, silly. What will you see in this tricky picture book? A duck? Or a rabbit? There are lots of ways it could be either one, but it's up to you to decide. This is a good book about perspective.
Gwen
Duck is not afraid of the dark. Definitely not. But he likes to sleep with the light on. And there might be a monster under his bed. Can you help him out? Children will enjoy reading this book, not just because it is so funny but also because there is a light switch that they can turn on and off...
Gwen
Ed, Ned, Ted and Bob are dust bunnies who like to rhyme some of the time. While Ed, Ned, and Ted play rhyming games, Bob tries to warn them of impending danger, the vacuum cleaner! But the other dust bunnies are too busy rhyming to pay attention. This very silly book is a great introduction to...
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Becker
Everyone (well, almost everyone) in the city of New Avalon has a personal fairy, a good luck charm for something very specific. Charlie's jealous of her friend Rochelle, who has a shopping fairy, and her enemy Fiorezne Burnham-Stone, who has an every boy likes you fairy. Charlie doesn't think...
Becker
Emma's dog, Toby, gets into LOTS of trouble. He digs up the flower beds, eats fresh baked goods, and gets into the garbage! Emma loves her dog, but her mom says that something must be done about Toby's behavior. First Emma tries to give him more attention. Then she takes him to dog...
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Gwen
This is a funny version of a few favorite nursery rhymes - Humpty Dumpty and Hey, Diddle Diddle. After Humpty is put back together by a doctor after his fall, he is hesitant to do any more climbing up walls. Instead, he sits around in his underwear all day watching TV. After getting really bored...
Gwen
At Franklin Middle School everyone lives in fear of Nikki Fingers who can ruin your social life with a well-aimed super soaker to the pants. When Nikki herself is taken out by a squirt gun assassin, Matt the school private eye is hired to figure out who is responsible. A mob boss, fast-talking...
Gwen
There once lived twin giant brothers, Lottavim and Normus. They had a happy life on their mountainside, but soon grew older and wanted to find wives. Of course, they wanted giant wives, and so they had to go out on a quest to find pretty giants living on other mountains. The problem with looking...
Becker
What do kitties like? Tuna, sunbeams, milk. What do kitties NOT like? BATHS! So what's the best way to go about giving a kitty a bath, when that's the last thing that kitty wants? This book not only illustrates the dangers of trying to give your cat a bath, but gives you instructions if you'd...
Gwen
When Trip Dinkelman (who hates to read) gets snagged by the PTA to help unload the school book fair crates, he gets more than he bargained for. Some books fall and hit him on the head, causing a nightmare? coma? hallucinations? Whatever it is, Trip has an amazing adventure through every genre of...
Gwen
Brian thinks that being a kid is really hard work, so he decides to retire. He moves to a retirement community in Florida and gets to swim and play cards. But that's not all -- there are doctor visits and prune juice too. Soon Brian realizes that being retired is pretty hard work,...
