Humorous Fiction Family

Meet Rob Cunningham, a 35-year-old man who has made a few mistakes along the way. When his wife, Claire, catches him in the act with her own sister, she promptly evicts him and tosses his belongings onto the front lawn. Desperate for a place to stay, Rob finds himself reluctantly checking into a peculiar motel operated by Doris—an eccentric, muumuu-clad widow with an insatiable love for macaroni and cheese.

Rafe Khatchadorian has never been cool. But all that changes when he becomes the guitarist in an awesome rock band and wrangles a part-time job at Hills Village's trendiest new coffee shop slash yoga studio. No more being at the bottom of the middle school food chain—Rafe is finally going to be popular! He just has two teeny problems: the awesome rock band is led by none other than the school bully. And the band actually isn't awesome—they absolutely stink, and Rafe has to whip them into shape for the Best Band Competition.

When Philip Digby first shows up on her doorstep, Zoe Webster is not impressed. He's rude and he treats her like a book he's already read and knows the ending to. But before she knows it, Digby - annoying, brilliant, and somehow...attractive? Digby - has dragged her into a series of hilarious and dangerous situations all related to an investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl. A kidnapping that may be connected to the tragic disappearance of his own sister eight years ago.

Die von Stibitz lieben es, Sachen zu stibitzen. Es ist beinahe so, als könnten sie gar nicht anders. Zumindest Mama Fia, Papa Ede, Oma Klaudia und die kleine Ella. Aber sie sind etwas besorgt wegen Ture, Ellas großem Bruder. Ture ist nämlich das weiße Schaf der Familie, stibitzt höchst ungern und macht nur, was erlaubt ist. Zum Glück ahnt er nichts davon, dass seine Sippe ihm zum Geburtstag den Riesenlolli aus "Jettes nette Zuckerecke", dem Süßigkeitenladen von Jette Menge-Plomben, stehlen möchte.

Es knarrt und knistert nachts in Paul Eisigs Haus. Deswegen möchte der Polizist nicht mehr zu Hause schlafen, weil er glaubt, dass es bei ihm spukt. Aber zum Glück hat er ja noch Familie von Stibitz als Nachbarn. Als er der kleinen Ella von seinen gruseligen Erlebnissen erzählt, macht sie sich auf die geheimnisvolle Suche nach dem Ursprung des Spuks. Doch sie entdeckt etwas ganz anderes: Auf dem Nachttisch des Polizisten liegt ein großer Golddiamant!

Die netteste Außenseiter-Familie seit Die Unglaublichen Die von Stibitz lieben es, Sachen zu stibitzen. Es ist beinahe so, als könnten sie nicht anders. Zumindest Mama Fia, Papa Ede und die kleine Ella. Bloß Ture macht nur, was erlaubt ist. Als der knallharte Polizist Klaus in die Stadt kommt, sorgt Ture sich natürlich besonders. Vor allem um Schnüffler, den Familienhund. Denn Klaus will sämtliche Einwohner überprüfen, und alle Hunde, die nicht ordnungsgemäß mit Quittung gekauft wurden, zum Nordpol schicken. Wurde Schnüffler etwa - wie alles, was die von Stibitz besitzen - geklaut?

Die von Stibitz lieben es, Sachen zu stibitzen. Es ist beinahe so, als könnten sie gar nicht anders. Zumindest Mama Fia, Papa Ede, Oma Klaudia und die kleine Ella. Aber sie sind etwas besorgt wegen Ture, Ellas großem Bruder. Ture ist nämlich das weiße Schaf der Familie, stibitzt höchst ungern und macht nur, was erlaubt ist. Und dass er nicht lügen kann, wird zum großen Problem, als seine Eltern die große Diamanten-Ausstellung besuchen, um dort etwas mitgehenzulassen.

Are Amelia Bedelia and her friends barking up the wrong tree? Recess just got super exciting. Amelia Bedelia and her friends are on the playground when they hear a strange noise coming from a nearby tree. It’s a tiny kitten stuck on a high branch! It’s up to Amelia Bedelia and her friends to figure out how to rescue the kitten and, once they do, to find the little cat a purr-fect new home!

Everyone knows that orphanages are horrible places. But Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone else at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. So the last thing she wants is to be sent to live with the very strange Bella Yaga….

Hold on to your umbrella and stock up on marshmallows - Judy and Stink face wicked weather in their third adventure. Judy and Stink and the whole Moody family hunker down with beans and batteries, ready to wait out the storm. But along with massive rain and strong winds, Hurricane Elmer throws down ghosts, squirrels, and aliens. Spooky! Just when things couldn’t possibly get any freakier - flicker, flicker, gulp! - the lights go O-U-T out.

Ancient pyramids can be flat-out dangerous! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist, he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy on earth can't wriggle out of this dark tomb - and the terrible mess he finds himself in?

An unsent letter in a first-edition copy of Charlotte's Web leads to a hunt for treasure in this heartwarming middle-grade mystery from the author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Now that Truly Lovejoy's father has been injured by an IED in Afghanistan and is having trouble finding work back home, the family moves from Texas to tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, to take over Lovejoy's Books, a struggling bookstore that's been in the family for 100 years.

Sweet, shy Tabitha Crum, the neglected only child of two parents straight out of a Roald Dahl book, doesn't have a friend in the world - except for her pet mouse, Pemberley, whom she loves dearly. But on the day she receives one of six invitations to the country estate of wealthy Countess Camilla DeMoss, her life changes forever.

Farrah "Digit" Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year. But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her laid-back senior year gets a lot more interesting. Soon she is personally investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and faking her own kidnapping - all while trying to convince a young, hot FBI agent to take her seriously.

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same - they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they are doing their best to fit into a society that doesn't want them. Fitting in is hard enough when you don't have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you're not, it's close to impossible.

Judy is visiting Grandma Lou one day when she accidentally finds an uber-mysterious list of activities - a Bucket List! Which gives Judy an idea: How rare would it be if she made her own way-official bucket list of all the things she wants to do - before she starts fourth grade? Pretty soon Judy is off and running trying to cross off all her items: learn to do a cartwheel, invent something rad, go to Antarctica (the real one), ride a horse - the list goes on.

Have fun with Olivia dressing up, singing songs, building sand castles, and more!

When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi. But treasure hunting is never easy - and when the map is stolen, the Kidds must rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle. Watch out for that nest of poisonous snakes!

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade audiences by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.

Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat, but their adventure takes an unexpected turn when Trixie realizes something is missing.