humorous fiction

Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way.

Thirty-five-year-old Hazel walks out of her marriage to the powerful CEO of Gogol Industries--a monolithic corporation with questionable motives and unlimited resources--after her husband, Byron, demands she wear a microchip in her brain that will link the two permanently in the first ever mind-meld. As a response, Hazel moves in with her oddball father and his lifelike sex doll and tries to carve out a new life for herself away from the secure compound she came from and amongst a community of misfits. But Byron doesn't take her leaving lightly and will do anything it takes to get her back.

Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide they'll skip the holiday altogether and go on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

"Interrupting Cow has a mystery to solve! Do sheep growl, groan, or howl? If not, what could this strange new creature in the pasture be? One thing Interrupting Cow does know is that there's always room for more friends!"--Publisher.

"After a bump on the head in gym class on April Fool's Day, Nikki has a wild dream in which she, her BFFs Chloe and Zoey, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie all end up playing the roles of some familiar classic fairy tale characters. Of course, the stories don't go quite as expected-because they each have a very special Dork Diaries spin!"--.

Finds Nikki and her friends followed for a month by a reality television crew during the shooting of Nikki's latest hit song, an exercise that proves to be more troublesome than anticipated.

Join A.J. and his friends for a year of weird, from Camp Ockatollyquay, trick-or-treating, going to visit Santa Claus at the mall, to a foreign exchange student from France in time for Valentine's Day, an Easter egg hunt at the mayor's mansion, to visits from the ghosts of summers past.

A self-proclaimed elementary-school student, who wishes to remain anonymous, tries to avoid disaster as he creates a booth for his school carnival and attempts to win a lucky bracelet.

An elementary student, who wishes to remain anonymous, recounts the good and the bad of their first day of school.