HUMOR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Captain Underpants and the Incredible Naughty Attack of the Talking Toilets Pilkey, Dave
Summary: Principal Krupp turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000. (Other titles in series.)
Everything on a Waffle Horvath, Polly
Summary: Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Grim Grotto Snicket, Lemony
Summary: Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl. (Latest in Series of Unfortunate Events.)
Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered Paulsen, Gary
Summary: Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Hoot Hiaasen, Carl
Summary: Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy’s attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
How Angel Peterson Got His Name Paulsen, Gary
Summary: Author Gary Paulsen relates from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
Knocked Out by my Nunga-nungas: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Rennison, Louise
Summary: The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship. (3rd in Series)
Love Among the Walnuts Ferris, Jean
Summary: Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money.
Rat Boys Eberhardt, Thom
Summary: Fourteen-year-olds Marci and Summer use a magic ring to turn two rats into cute boys so that they can have dates for the Spring Fling.
The Schernoff Discoveries Paulsen, Gary
Summary: Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.
Slot Machine Lynch, Chris
Summary: When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul’s Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.
Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle Korman, Gordon
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of “uncles” appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again. (Sequel to Son of the Mob)
The Teacher’s Funeral Peck, Richard
Summary: In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell’s dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle “hauls off and dies.”
What Would Joey Do? Gantos, Jack
Summary: Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema. (3rd in Series)
A Year Down Yonder Peck, Richard
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
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