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Miss Child Has Gone Wild!

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

Greg Heffley finds thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scares Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop. Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without getting the Cheese Touch?

Child NarratorSlapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

Mo O'Hara · 189 pages

When Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. To save Frankie Tom zaps him with a battery to bring him back to life, but there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a big fat zombie goldfish with hypnotic powers and he's out for revenge.

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume · 120 pages

Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem—his little brother, Fudge. But the grown-ups in his life just can't see that there is something wrong with a two-year-old who breaks his front teeth try- ing to fly, decides that he is a dog, goes on a no-eat strike, and scribbles all over his brother's homework. Peter is always asked to perform so that Fudge will be less of

Child NarratorSlapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFunny
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Nicholas and the Gang

Rene Goscinny · 120 pages

Nicholas is invited to a birthday party by the girl next door, plays a very messy game of chess, and learns that walking on your hands is much harder than turning somersaults.

Child NarratorSlapstick ComedyFirst Person NarratorMiddle Grade
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The Worst Class Trip Ever

Dave Barry · 224 pages

When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend Matt's decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists--and it's up to the boys to stop them.

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeSeries StarterFirst Person Narrator
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jack Gantos · 160 pages

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In Front of God and Everybody

K.D. McCrite · 301 pages

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.

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Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

Barbara Park · 96 pages

Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.

Child NarratorSlapstick ComedyFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts · 320 pages

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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My Weird School: #1-4 [Collection with Bonus Material]

Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot · 384 pages

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Great Brain

John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages

Child NarratorMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The 26-Storey Treehouse

Andy Griffiths · 352 pages

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Clementine

Sara Pennypacker · 136 pages

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

Child NarratorMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Just Annoying

Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton · 140 pages

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFunnyFirst Person Narrator
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A Christmas Story

Jean Shepherd · 98 pages

A young boy really, really, really wants a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas but his parents cannot be convinced.

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Horrid Henry's Haunted House

Francesca Simon · 88 pages

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Sweet Farts

Raymond Bean · 152 pages

Last year Keith Emerson invented Sweet Farts, tablets that make farts smell good, but now he is the center of all kinds of unwanted attention, and even worse, the school science fair is just weeks away and everyone expects Keith to top his last invention.

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Aliens Ate My Homework

Bruce Coville · 179 pages

Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal.

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Lemony Snicket · 312 pages

Train Travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! Can Lemony Snicket finally discover all the right answers? There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder. Apprentice investigator Lemony Snicket was on the train, and he thought that if he solved the murder he could save the town. He was almost thirteen and he was wrong. He was wrong about all of it. He should have asked the ques

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How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Cressida Cowell · 320 pages

Findus a commis l'irréparable : il a envoyé une lettre d'amour à Capricia O'Strogoth, fille de l'impitoyable chef de la tribu des Mochetrogoths. Erreur, grave erreur. Car, en ces temps reculés, l'envoi de petits mots à caractère sentimental était chose sérieuse. Dangereuse. Potentiellement mortelle. Qui d'autre que le légendaire Harold, "celui qui murmure à l'oreille des dragons", pourrait sauver

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Big Nate Flips Out

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend Francis's example and becomes a total neat freak; has Nate totally flipped out?"--

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFunnyFirst Person Narrator
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Geronimo's Valentine

Geronimo Stilton, Elisabetta Dami · 118 pages

When Geronimo gets a call to help Hercule Poirat solve a mystery at the same time as his date with Petunia Pretty Paws, what is a gentlemouse to do?

Slapstick ComedyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

Slapstick ComedyFunnyFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter

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