When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers,...
Humorous stories
- Author:Allison, JenniferSummary:
- Author:Allison, JenniferSummary:
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective...
- Author:Brooks, Walter R.Summary:
After Freddy, a perceptive and poetic pig, helps a nearsighted Robin get glasses and aids in planning an important wedding, he and the other Bean farm animals try to change a slingshot-wielding boy into a friend.
- Author:BALL, Murray HoneSummary:
Fred Mouse dreams of finding a nice girl mouse to marry. After his father drowns in a jug of milk, Fred sets out to find his dream by following his nose. Is a white girl mouse with red eyes, smelling of Gorgonzola and chocolate, really...
- Author:Benton, Jim.Summary:
Reduced to miniature size, Franny travels through her pet dog's nostril and into his stomach.
- Author:Angleberger, Tom.Summary:
Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run...
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
Having recovered their human shape, Emeralda and Eadric try to help Aunt Grassina find the special objects needed to break the spell that turned Grassina's true love, Haywood, into an otter.
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.
- Author:Scroggs, KirkSummary:
When Grampa and Wiley sneak out of the house on a stormy Halloween night to attend Colonel Dracula's Monster Truck Spectacular, they run into trouble from which only Gramma and an F5 tornado can save them.
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn...
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of...
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take...
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence...
- Author:McCOMBIE, KarenSummary:
Ok, so my Dad's started ironing his jeans and slicking back his hair. it can only mean one thing - Dad is seeing someone. Like a Woman Someone. And it can't be our Mum, because she's off travelling the world. There...
- Author:Pennypacker, SaraSummary:
With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
- Author:Pennypacker, SaraSummary:
Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.