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Later, Gator
By Laurence Yep. 1995
Teddy hates the fact that his little brother Bobby is so well behaved. He always tries to get a rise…
out of Bobby by giving him unlikable birthday presents, but this year Teddy's mother insists he buy Bobby a turtle. Teddy compromises by buying Bobby a baby alligator. To Teddy's surprise, Bobby loves his new pet! For grades 3-6The Toilet Paper Tigers
By Gordon Korman. 1993
By the time Professor Pendergast shows up at a Little League meeting to pick his team, there are only nine…
players left--all rejects. The team soon learns the professor knows nothing about baseball and has volunteered to coach just so his visiting granddaughter will have children around! But the worst horror is the jive-talking, smart-aleck granddaughter from New York who blackmails the team into letting her coach them. For grades 5-8Nasty stinky sneakers
By Eve Bunting. 1994
The Slam Dunkers sneakers company is having a contest, and the person with the stinkiest sneakers will win three pairs…
of its popular brand. Ten-year-old Colin knows he has a great chance of winning. After careful handling, his sneakers are so foul his mother makes him leave them in the hall outside their apartment. Then, the day before the contest, someone steals Colin's shoes! For grades 4-7See you around, Sam!
By Lois Lowry. 1996
Four-year-old Sam Krupnik comes home from school delighted with a set of fangs that makes him look disgusting. His mother…
won't let him wear them in the house, so Sam decides to run away to Alaska. But after Sam leaves home, he needs food and a drink of water--and maybe there isn't any reason to hurry to Alaska. For grades 3-6Ned Feldman, space pirate
By Daniel Pinkwater. 1994
Ned Feldman is home alone one day when he hears a noise under the kitchen sink. When Ned summons enough…
courage to check it out, he discovers Captain Lumpy Lugo aboard a spacecraft that looks just like the sink. Inviting Ned aboard, the Captain announces that he is Bugbeard the Pirate, famous for doing bad things. Ned goes along and soon they land on the planet Jivebone where they encounter giant space chickens. For grades 3-6The restaurant critic's wife
By Elizabeth LaBan. 2016
Lila's husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he's determined to…
remain anonymous and that preoccupation takes over their lives. Meanwhile, Lisa craves adult conversation and relief from her homemaker role. With her husband obsessed with anonymity, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has disappeared. Adult. UnratedDooby dooby moo
By Doreen Cronin. 2006
Boom town: a Lake Wobegon novel (Lake Wobegon #12)
By Garrison Keillor. 2022
"Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf,…
for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin." -- Provided by publisherYou're sending me where?: dispatches from summer camp
By Eric Dregni. 2017
Plumards, de cheval (Points. Point-virgule, ISSN 0751-8080 #15)
By Groucho Marx. 1983
Groucho Marx raconte ses intérêts supérieurs à rester dans son lit. Il développe une thèse avec humour sur l'importance du…
lit dans la vie et sur les différents types de « coucheurs » ou plutôt dormeurs.Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats
By Richard Peck. 1993
When Bambi Babcock's TV-producer father bankrupt, the Babcocks have to get out of Los Angeles ... fast. Dad heads for…
his hometown of Hickory Fork, which he remembers as a wholesome place for kids to grow up. But Bambi, her sister Buffie, and their little brother Brick come up against the Mall Rats, a down-home teenage gang run by scary Tanya and beef Jeeter. When the Mall Rats walk into school dives for cover. They've already trashed the mall. Bambi knows that if her show-biz family is going to get stuck here, they must turn the school around and save the town. The Mall Rats will never know what hit them.The Twinkie Squad
By Gordon Korman. 1992
In the world of Gordon Korman, dreamers, geniuses, and misfits do triumph, and in this book they triumph hilariously, wonderfully,…
and in the best Gordon Korman style. Readers will cheer for the Twinkie Squad, which includes Dave with an attitude problem who thinks everything stinks, Yolanda who skips school to watch movies, Gerald, the ten-year-old boy genius terrified of middle-school, hyperactive, wall-climbing Ric, and Anita who agrees with everybody because she can't think for herself. The kids are resentful and bored until Douglas, son of diplomats, visionary, dreamer--the most eccentric sixth-grader in Middle School, joins. Then Commando, smooth mover, basketball star, a short kid who fights bullies and wins, and a way cool guy--until he met Douglas is forced to join up too, thanks to hitting Douglas in the nose with a basketball. Only special students, students who get 45 minutes of group counseling after school every day, get to be in the group labeled Twinkie Squad by the rest of the school who calls them crazy losers and won't go near them. Commando never planned on being that special. But Douglas doesn't understand why Commando is worried. The Twinkie Squad, Douglas feels, has real potential. And he has Big Plans for it. Before Douglas is through, the school will smell like rotting fish, the principal will be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and reality itself will be up for special discussion. Best of all, with Douglas's help, the Twinkie Squad will have achieved its potential--in ways nobody, not even Douglas Fairchild, could ever have anticipated. You'll start out laughing, laugh your way through the book, and end up high fiving The Twinkie Squad! The cover is described.La Leyenda De Ron Añejo
By Ed Teja, Martina Tort. 2014
Ron es uno de los mayores aventureros de todo el Caribe. Vive en la isla ficticia de Kayakoo y trabaja…
en su viejo barco de madera. Disfruta de una vida gloriosa con un presupuesto más bien ajustado, que a menudo solo le llega para comprar comida y ron. Se enfrenta al mundo con un optimismo desmesurado, e intenta pasárselo bien y vivir el momento sin pensar demasiado en las consecuencias. Mientras tenga su barco, todo irá bien.Cherise the Niece
By Benton, J. K.. 2008
Edward Gorey meets The Bunny Suicides in a murderously funny tale from the creator of It’s Happy Bunny From the creator of the…
hugely successful It’s Happy Bunny franchise comes a little piece of work named Cherise, who may be, it turns out, a not-so-nice niece. In the tradition of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Jim Benton’s first adult picture book, with hilarious rhymes and illustrations, is a darkly comic masterpiece of the macabre. She was orphaned quite young In a mysterious way, Her parents just up and vanished one day. ” The bloody footprints leading out of Cherise’s bedroom are the first clue that perhaps the little darling with the bow in her hair is not an angel. As Cherise is shuttled from one aunt’s home to another, her aunts vanish, meeting inventive and hysterical ends. With a killer punch line on its final page, Jim Benton’s Cherise the Niece will leave readers laughing. .The Autobiography of Methuselah
By John Kendrick Bangs. 2012
Having recently passed into what my great-grandson Shem calls my Anecdotage, it has occurred to me that perhaps some of…
the recollections of a more or less extended existence upon this globular[1] mass of dust and water that we are pleased to call the earth, may prove of interest to posterity, and I have accordingly, at [2]the earnest solicitation of my grandson, Noah, and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, consented to put them into permanent literary form.Yard Sale: A Mud Flat Story
By James Stevenson. 1996
Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get…
up and take a look at the Mud Flat Yard Sale.Menace of the Mutanator (Garfield's Pet Force #4)
By Jim Davis. 1998
The evil Vetvix has kidnapped four of the Pet Force members and combined them into one vicious creature -- the…
Mutanator. Will Garzooka be able to free his friends from Vetvix's spell?I Do - Or Do I?
By Karen King. 2016
Local journalist Cassie is getting married to hot-shot lawyer, reliable Timothy and his 'Monster-in-Law' mother Sylvia wants to plan the…
entire wedding. When Sylvia books the exclusive ID images to take photographs of the extravagant wedding, Cassie has no idea what she's walking into. The elusive JM who is the newest photographer employed just so happens to be Jared, Cassie's first love and ex-fiancée, who broke off their engagement to follow his life-long dreams. Jared is back to earn some cash before jetting off on his next wild adventure. When Cassie is asked to write an article with top tips and advice for Brides to Be, she jokingly writes a column depicting her current scenario and a co-worker submits it in place of the real article. Cassie's column is soon making the headlines with readers asking the age old question Who Will She Choose?Ma thérapie shopping
By Agnes Ruiz, Colette Kebell. 2017
Lèche-vitrine ! Ne détestez-vous pas ce terme ? C’est comme aller dans une confiserie et ne pas pouvoir acheter quoi…
que ce soit, ou ne pas savoir quoi acheter en premier. C’est précisément mon domaine professionnel, aider les gens à faire le bon choix. Je suis l’une de ces consultantes de mode qui sont si populaires aujourd’hui parmi le gratin, bien que j’ai commencé il y a longtemps. Choisir les bons vêtements pour la bonne occasion n’est pas une tâche facile : la tenue doit correspondre à votre personnalité et, si possible, l’améliorer encore. Cette histoire raconte comment j’ai abandonné le stress du quotidien où je passais des jours dans un bureau juridique. J’ai suivi mon rêve de devenir consultante en mode. Je crois même que je suis plus que ça ; une thérapeute du shopping. Je suis sûre que vous avez envie de découvrir comment j’ai commencé et comment j’ai aidé mes clients à devenir sensationnels ! Alors, qu’attendez-vous! Dépêchez-vous, cliquez sur ce bouton « acheter » là-haut et préparez-vous à entrer dans le monde mystérieux d’une fille de Berkshire et de sa thérapie shopping.Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems
By Adam Ehrlich Sachs. 2016
A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorders…
tells this elemental story in over 100 hilarious, witty variations.Adam Ehrlich Sachs's Inherited Disorders is a rueful, absurd, and endlessly entertaining look at a most serious subject--the eternally vexed relations between fathers and sons. In a hundred and seventeen shrewd, surreal vignettes, Sachs lays bare the petty rivalries, thwarted affection, and mutual bafflement that have characterized the filial bond since the days of Davidic kings. A philosopher's son kills his father and explains his aphorisms to death. A father bequeaths to his son his jacket, deodorant, and political beliefs. England's most famous medium becomes possessed by the spirit of his skeptical father--who questions, in front of the nation, his son's choice of career. A Czech pianist amputates his fingers one by one to thwart his father, who will not stop composing concertos for him. A nineteenth-century Italian nobleman wills his ill-conceived flying contraption--incapable of actual flight--to his newborn son. In West Hollywood, an aspiring screenwriter must contend with the judgmental visage of his father, a respected public intellectual whose frozen head, clearly disappointed in him, he keeps in his freezer. Keenly inventive, but painfully familiar, these surprisingly tender stories signal the arrival of a brilliant new comic voice--and fresh hope for fathers and sons the world over.