Humor Booklist

F. H. Tuttle Middle School Library
Humorous Stories

FIC AND
Anderson, Matthew T. Burger Wuss. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1999. Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937-. Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last. New York : Orchard, c1987. The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a classroom production of Shakespeare's play has some very unexpected results.

FIC BLU
Blume, Judy. Fudge-a-Mania. New York : Dell, c1990. Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.

FIC CLA
Clarke, Judith, 1943-. The Heroic Life of Al Capsella. 1st American ed. New York : H. Holt, 1990, c1988. Fourteen-year-old Al Capsella, desperately trying to be normal and blend in with the rest of the crowd, is constantly embarrassed by his highly unconventional parents.

FIC DAH
Dahl, Roald. Matilda. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1988. Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

FIC DAH
Dahl, Roald. The Twits. New York : Puffin, 1991. The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

FIC FIT
Fitzgerald, John Dennis. The Great Brain. [New York] : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1988], c1967. The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.

FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Heads or Tails : Stories From the Sixth Grade. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. Copycat -- My brother's finger -- Candy Itani -- Rabies -- Donna Lowry -- Death and taxes -- My brother's arm -- Cocoa Beach. Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.

FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.

FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Jack on the Tracks : Four Seasons of Fifth Grade. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.

FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Loses Control. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

FIC GAR
Gardiner, John Reynolds. Top Secret. 1st pbk. ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1984. Despite the disapproval of his parents and his formidable science teacher, nine-year-old Allen determines to do his science project on human photosynthesis.

FIC GAU
Gauthier, Gail, 1953-. MyLLife Among the Aliens. New York : Putnam's Sons, c1996. Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at their house.

FIC GAU
Gauthier, Gail, 1953-. A Year with Butch and Spike. New York : Putnam, c1998. Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

FIC Get
Getz, David. Thin Air. 1st ed. New York : Holt and Company, c1990. Sixth-grader Jacob Katz struggles to overcome his asthma and the attentions of his overprotective brother as he tries to find a place among his peers.

FIC GOR
Gorman, Carol. Dork in Disguise. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999. Starting middle school in a new town, brainy Jerry Flack changes his image from "dork" to "cool kid," only to discover that he'd rather be himself.

FIC GRE
Greene, Constance C. Isabelle Shows Her Stuff. 1st ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Kestrel, 1984. Anxious to change his "goody-goody" image, eight-year-old Guy is delighted when Isabelle the Itch offers to teach him the art of being a funny pest. Her lessons end up teaching them both what being a tough guy really means.

FIC KIN
King-Smith, Dick. Ace, the Very Important Pig. 1st American ed. New York : Crown Publishers, 1990. Farmer Tubbs' amazing pig, Ace of Clubs, eventually winds up on television for his cleverness.

FIC LEM
LeMieux, A. C. (Anne Connelly). All the Answers. 1st ed. New York : Avon, c2000. Failing algebra and being grounded for talking back to his father are bad enough, but when he faces a beautiful new eighth grader and her bullying twin brother, Jason is forced to take another look at his life.

FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Has the Answers. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. See you Around, Sam! Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1996. Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.

FIC MAG
Maguire, Gregory. Six Haunted Hairdos. New York : Clarion Books, c1997. With the help of their favorite teacher, two rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons that appear near their small Vermont town.

FIC MCC
McCloskey, Robert, 1914-. Homer Price. New York : Viking Press, c1971, 1943. Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.

FIC MCK
McKay, Hilary. Dolphin Luck. 1st U.S. ed. New York : M. McElderry Books, 1999. Sent by their vacationing parents to visit Mad Aunt Mabel, Perry and Ant have an adventure, while their younger siblings Sun Dance and Beany stay at home making burglar traps and searching for a magic sword.

FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. Harris and Me : a Summer Remembered. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993. 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.

FIC PEC
Peck, Richard, 1934-. A Long Way From Chicago : a Novel in Stories. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

FIC PEC
Peck, Richard, 1934-. A Year Down Yonder. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2000. 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.

FIC PEC
Peck, Robert Newton. Soup Ahoy. New York : Knopf, 1994. A radio contest, the impending visit of actor Sinker O. Sailor to their small Vermont town, and rumors of a black pearl in Wet Lake spur Soup and Rob on to a spectacular nautical disaster.

FIC PEC
Peck, Robert Newton. Soup 1776. New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1995. Rob is caught up in his friend Soup's plan to help their town of Learning, Vermont, celebrate the Fourth of July with a suitable pageant that sets the record straight about several of the town's citizens.

FIC PIL
Pilkey, Dav, 1966-. Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) : the Third Epic Novel. New York : Blue Sky Press, c1999. Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds.

FIC PIN
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-. Borgel. 1st ed. New York : Macmillan, c1990. Melvin recounts his extraordinary adventures in time and space with his 111-year-old sort of great-Uncle Borgel.

FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip, 1946-. I Was a Rat! New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [2000], c1999. A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.

FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging : Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. 1st American ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

FIC ROB
Robinson, Barbara. The Best School Year Ever. New York : HarperCollins, c1994. The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.

FIC ROC
Rockwell, Thomas, 1933-. How to Eat Fried Worms. New York : F. Watts, c1973. Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

FIC SAC
Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1995. Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

FIC SAC
Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Sideways Stories From Wayside School. New York : Morrow Junior Books, [1998], c1978. Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

FIC SCI
Scieszka, Jon. Your Mother Was a Neanderthal. New York : Viking, c1993. The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.

FIC WIL
Williams, Barbara. H-E-L-L-L-P! The Crazy Gang is Back! 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1995. Kim finds out to her horror that two members of the Spikes gang have transferred to her junior high school and that one of them has a crush on her.