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Velcome
By Kevin O'Malley. 1997
Collection of creepy and terrifying stories that also have humorous endings. A young boy is followed home by a coffin,…
and a young girl home alone keeps getting phone calls from the Viper, who says he is coming up to her apartment. For grades K-3The thousands of jokes from Berle's sixty years in vaudeville, radio, television, and the movies are arranged alphabetically by more…
than five hundred subjects. Includes an introduction and a "tricks of the trade" advice sectionMarvin Redpost: kidnapped at birth? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #Bk. 1)
By Louis Sachar, Neal Hughes. 1992
When Marvin Redpost learns that a king is looking for his missing son who was kidnapped at birth, Marvin begins…
to wonder if he is Prince Robert. He too is nine years old and has red hair and blue eyes. His mother agrees to help him find out the truth. For grades 2-4Marvin Redpost: is he a girl? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #Bk. 3)
By Louis Sachar, Barbara Sullivan. 1993
When Casey Happleton tells Marvin that if he kisses his elbow he'll turn into a girl, Marvin's curiosity gets the…
best of him. It's very difficult to do, but Marvin finally kisses his elbow and is shocked to find himself thinking, acting, and maybe even looking like a girl. For grades 2-4Rock this!
By Chris Rock. 1997
Monologues and jokes from the black comedian Chris Rock. Rock started on the Saturday Night Live comedy show and graduated…
to his own television spot, the Chris Rock Show. Rock explores current social issues such as racism, poverty, drugs, and sex. Strong language and descriptions of sex. BestsellerSpace brat 2: Blork's evil twin (Space Brat Ser. #No. 2)
By Bruce Coville. 1993
When Blork's class goes to the Museum of New Inventions, Blork gets angry with a classmate and wanders away from…
the group to calm down. Blork sees a machine in the room he enters and just has to try it out. Suddenly there are two Blorks! Sequel to Space Brat (DB 44413). For grades 2-4Space Brat 3: the wrath of Squat (Space Brat Ser. #3)
By Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville. 1994
Now that Blork has become a hero for saving the city, he has been invited to the Galactic Celebration--the biggest…
party in history. But his old enemy, Squat, decides it is time to seek revenge for having been humiliated by Blork. Sequel to Space Brat Two: Blork's Evil Twin (DB 44414). For grades 2-4Eye of the beholder
By Daniel Hayes. 1992
Trouble just seems to follow the twosome of Lymie and Tyler. Who would imagine that the "art treasures" they created…
with a power drill would be mistaken for the works of a famous artist? Sequel to The Trouble with Lemons (DB 36886). For grades 6-9My point-- and I do have one
By Ellen Degeneres, Ellen DeGeneres. 1995
Ellen DeGeneres, comedian and star of the television sitcom Ellen, discusses her humorous attempt to train for the Iditarod with…
her two pet dogs in California and explains the perks of being a celebrity, including being allowed to add five days to milk's expiration date. She rambles on through various topics until, as she says, she has written the sixty thousand words her contract calls for. Some strong language. BestsellerJingo Django
By Sid Fleischman. 1995
Jingo has been in an orphanage for seven years when a man offers two hundred dollars for him. The man…
tells Jingo he wants help in finding Jingo's father, but Jingo secretly decides to lead the man on a wild-goose chase that will put them in gold country. For grades 4-7McBroom's wonderful one-acre farm: three tall tales
By Sid Fleischman, Quentin Blake. 1992
Josh McBroom, his wife, and their eleven children are heading west when they are offered a farm in Iowa. The…
farm is under water, but a dry spell soon turns it into one acre of land with very rich soil. Crops grow in minutes, trees in hours. The McBrooms love their new farm, but they must fight wind that carries off small children and grasshoppers that eat anything green. For grades 3-6The thing that bothered Farmer Brown (Orchard HC Picture Books)
By Nadine Bernard Westcott, Teri Sloat. 1995
Just as Farmer Brown is about to fall asleep something begins to buzz around his bedroom, keeping him awake. What…
a time he has chasing the pesky mosquito! And when it finally decides to leave the farmer alone, it flies away and annoys the animals too. For preschool-grade 2The ditches of Edison County
By Ronald Richard Roberts, Ronald R. Roberts. 1993
This parody of the bestselling Bridges of Madison County (DB 35861) also features a brief affair between a traveling photographer,…
Ronald Concave, and a farmer's lonely wife, Pancetta Jackson. Concave is shooting ditches rather than bridges and his photos are so bad that National Geographic won't even let him have a subscription. But Pancetta falls for him because he's a "hunk-a hunk-a burnin' love." Strong language. BestsellerNaked beneath my clothes: tales of a revealing nature
By Rita Rudner. 1992
Stand-up comedienne Rudner of HBO fame takes a wide-ranging, humorous look at life's ups and downs. A few of the…
suggestions she offers in her collection of short essays are that driving with one's husband would be simpler in a two-bedroom car; someone should discover how to reap the physical benefits of someone else's exercising; and department stores should offer counseling after bathing-suit shoppingMama makes up her mind: and other dangers of southern living
By Bailey White, B. White. 1993
A collection of White's tales, some of which have been heard on "All Things Considered," regarding life in rural south…
Georgia. They include "Turkeys," which tells of the time an ornithologist used her 102-degree temperature to help hatch sixteen wild turkeys, and "Porsche," which describes the car White's father left home in, that now sits on the porch with other accumulated items. BestsellerYou're only old once!: A Book for Obsolete Children (Classic Seuss)
By Seuss, Dr Seuss. 1986
In jaunty rhymes, Dr. Seuss follows a kindly old bald man with a big white mustache through ridiculous medical examinations…
at the Golden Years Clinic on Century Square. He's there for "Spleen Readjustment and Muffler Repair." The doctors probe and poke him in search of such maladies as "Prune Picker's Plight" and devise diets--"What you like...forget it!" For readers of all ages. BestsellerWhere the sidewalk ends: the poems of Shel Silverstein
By Shel Silverstein. 1974
Curing the cross-eyed mule: Appalachian mountain humor (Humor)
By Loyal Jones, Billy Edd Wheeler, Wendell E. Hall. 1989
Earthy humor on a variety of subjects, such as love and marriage, schools and education, moonshine and other spirits, old…
age, religion, politicians and lawyers, health and medicine, rural life, and animals. Some strong languageThe treasury of clean church jokes
By Tal D Bonham, Tal D. Bonham. 1986
Adam and Eve, baptism, children, camp, complaints, deacons, epitaphs, gossip, future life, missionaries, preaching, and weddings are just a few…
of the many subjects covered in this collection of jokes compiled by a leading Baptist from OhioThe Random House book of humor for children (Random House Book of... Ser.)
By Paul O. Zelinsky, Shana Corey, Pamela Pollack. 1988
The author believes that "laughing is a good way to spend time." She has collected thirty-four stories--some short stories and…
some selections from longer books--that she believes will make you laugh! She includes stories by Mark Twain, Richard Peck, Betsy Byars, Roald Dahl, Natalie Babbitt, Garrison Keillor, Beverly Cleary, and others. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 1988