Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

It's a new year at Wayside School, and Mrs Jewls's class on the thirtieth floor has a LOT to deal with. First of all, they must prepare to face The Ultimate Test, which involves a fiendishly difficult Spelling Bee, upside-down singing and blindfolded smelling. Meanwhile the paperclips are triple-...

The king wants the perfect crown to wear for his party, but none of them are quite right. The queen might just have a good solution. 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by enga...

Prepare to enter a whole world of cute! Funny bunnies who perform acrobatics, mini pigs wearing multi-coloured wellies, sushi-mice that sleep curled-up in the middle of sweet-smelling flowers. The world of cute is the most adorable place EVER - but the friends you're about to meet like to cause c...

Finn McAllister is a completely normal middle schooler: he hangs out with his friends, he plays video games, he rides his bike. And then he dies. Now Finn is a ghost, with all the perks that come along with being able to walk through walls - and people! He can stay up as late as he wants, there's...

The Island of Mist is under siege and Odge Gribble and Prince Ben are in hiding. Desperate to find out why the mist is disappearing, Odge travels through the gump to Vienna, to find a mistmaker expert. But in yet another case of mistaken identity, Odge finds Lina, a nine-year-old girl looking for...

Limpet and his mum run an ice-cream shop, full of her favourite flavours: spaghetti ice cream, anyone? Terrific tomato and parsnip ice cream? But his mum's off for the weekend, leaving Limpet and his dad in charge. What could possibly go wrong? When Limpet finds himself in a giant cucumber costum...

Yusuf's older sister is coming to stay - and she's having a baby! Yusuf wants to be the ultimate uncle, but he knows he has to prepare. He ropes in his friends for a madcap scheme that is sure to backfire in more ways than one, with hilarious and unexpected results.

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a m...

Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a m...