Juvenile & Young Adult / Humorous Stories

Horns and Wrinkles

by Joseph Helgerson & Nicoletta Ceccoli

How can you tell if a river’s under a spell? River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies—the usual suspects. The stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she’s ever...

Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink

by Stephanie Kate Strohm

When Libby Kelting, a Jane Austen lover and all-around history nerd, scores a summer intership at a living history museum that turns out to be haunted, she quickly learns that ghosts are almost as complicated...

Island of Thieves

by Josh Lacey

Buried treasure, villains, cars, and conflict—this humorous, fast-paced, action-packed novel is a page-turner. Perfect for the reluctant-to-read middle-grade boy!

Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have

by Allen Zadoff

What’s worse than being fat your freshman year?

Being fat your sophomore year.

Life used to be so simple for Andrew Zansky–hang with the Model UN guys, avoid gym class, and eat and eat and eat. He’s used...

Pure Dead Frozen

by Debi Gliori

As usual, the Strega-Borgia family can't seem to get a break:

They've just welcomed a newborn boy Strega-Borgia into the world, but before they can give him a name, he's snatched and replaced with a demon baby....

Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind

by Andy Robb

Fourteen-year-old Archie is a Geek to his core. In the world of role-playing games, he's a Level 5 Mage, capable of summoning the Undead. In this world, things are rather different. With no rule book to navigate...

Gooney Bird Is So Absurd

by Lois Lowry & Middy Thomas

The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowry's popular Gooney Birdseries!

It’s a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School--the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming...

Nikki and Deja: Wedding Drama

by Karen English & Laura Freeman

The fifth book in the acclaimed series by Coretta Scott King Honor-Award winner Karen English about Nikki and Deja, two African American third grade girls who are best friends--and this time they're attending...

Wisdom's Kiss

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Magic, cunning, and one very special cat join forces in this hilarious, extraordinary tale by the author of the Dairy Queen trilogy and Princess Ben. The enhanced eBook edition contains exclusive bonus material,...

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

by Joe Schreiber

Ferris Bueller meets La Femme Nikita in this funny, action-packed young adult novel. It’s prom night—and Perry just wants to stick to his own plan and finally play a muchanticipated

gig with his band in...

The The Moffats

by Eleanor Estes & Louis Slobodkin

Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house...sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down...

Just Grace and the Flower Girl Power

by Charise Mericle Harper

In this eighth installment of the beloved Just Grace series, Grace finds out she's invited to a wedding! A rich combination of art and text, this book perfectly captures the ups and downs of the life of a third-grader....

Gooney Bird on the Map

by Lois Lowry & Middy Thomas

Gooney Bird Greene returns for more adventures in this chapter-book series from two-time Newbery Medal–winner Lois Lowry.  Mrs. Pidgeon’s second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents’...

A Girl Named Digit

by Annabel Monaghan

The DaVinci Code meets Clueless in this hilarious adventure romance about Digit, a code-breaking math geek, who uses her brains to catch the terrorists and win the boy.

Populazzi

by Elise Allen

Cara has to climb The Ladder of guys to become the most popular girl in school, in a hilarious, heartbreaking, and hopeful coming-of-age story by the co-writer of Hilary Duff's first novel for teens, Elixir....

Bless this Mouse

by Lois Lowry & Eric Rohmann

A resilient and quirky colony of church mice fears another Great X more than they fear cats. Under Mouse Mistress Hildegarde’s leadership, they save themselves from one danger after another—sometimes just...

The Well-Wishers

by Edward Eager & N. M. Bodecker

“This one will delight.”--Christian Science Monitor

Love among the Walnuts

by Jean Ferris

Sandy Huntington-Ackerman's life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, moneygrubbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune by poisoning a birthday cake. Luckily, those conniving uncles can't...

The Lipstick Laws

by Amy Holder

At Penford High School, Brittany Taylor is the queen bee. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone’s life with a snap of perfectly manicured...

Just Grace and the Terrible Tutu

by Charise Mericle Harper

In the sixth installment of the acclaimed Just Grace series, best friends Grace and Mimi take on a new adventure as mother's helpers when they learn Mimi's going to be a big sister! Playful and easy to relate...