| F Avi |
Avi. Romeo and Juliet Together
(and Alive) At Last. It's a school production of Romeo and Juliet, with a bashful pair in the leading roles -- and everybody's waiting for the kissing scenes. What they get is more action than Shakespeare ever imagined, in the funniest, most disastrous, and most romantica |
| F Bet |
Bethancourt, T. Ernest . T.H.U.M.B.B. Two boys, aspiring rock musicians, join the school orchestra, the only performing group in school, and proceed to remake it into The Hippest Underground Marching Band in Brooklyn. |
| F Bro |
Brooks, Walter R. Freddy the
Pig. Together, Freddy the pig, Jinx the cat, and several other barnyard characters set off on foot and on hoof for the land of sunshine--Florida. Learn about their bold escapades. |
| F Coh |
Cohen, Barbara. King of the
Seventh Grade. A seventh-grade boy, who must attend Hebrew School after school, finds it boring and amuses himself and others by making jokes at the teacher's expense. The next thing he knows, he finds himself expelled and unhappy. |
| F Coh |
Cohen, Barbara. Lovers' Games. Two cousins, girls, get all mixed up about which one likes which boy. In a comedy of errors, each tries hard to convince the other to like the boy meant for her. |
| F Con |
Conford, Ellen. Lenny Kandell,
Smart Aleck. Lenny wants to be a stand-up comic, but his family finds him less than funny. |
| F Con |
Conford, Ellen. Why Me? Thirteen year old Hobie, who works after school in his grandfather's bookstore, gets up the nerve to send a love poem to a real knockout named Darlene. Hobie's fantasies, predicaments and realizations will have readers rolling with laughter in this c |
| F Cre |
Cresswell, Helen. Absolute
Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga. The Bagthorpes, a family living in England, all begin to enter contests when Uncle Parker wins a Caribbean Cruise in a breakfast cereal contest. Even the dog, Absolute Zero, participates. The results are hilarious. |
| F Dan |
Danziger, Paula. It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle
World. When two girls have been best friends ever since they met on the "Divorce Express," what could be better than to have their parents fall in love and move in with each other? But having Phoebe as a friend and having Phoebe as a "sister" are two differ |
| F Dan |
Danziger, Paula. Make Like
a Tree and Leave. The same things are still driving Matthew Martin nuts: his bossy sister, his mother the health food freak, and Vanessa, who has never forgiven him for living. Things don't work out quite right when Brian Bruno gets wrapped up in a lot of plaster gauz |
| F Dan |
Danziger, Paula. There's a
Bat in Bunk Five. Marcy Lewis is a junior counselor at a summer camp, a job with many advantages, like a cute lifeguard, but also many disasters, including twelve camp pranksters. |
| F Fol |
Foley, June. It's No Crush,
I'm in Love. Two high school freshman girls share conversations and adventures that center around one's belief that she is in love with her English teacher. |
| F Gar |
Garfield, Leon. The Night
of the Comet. Four days before Pigott's Comet is due to pass over Brighton, England, the fancies of Harris and Bostock turn to love. They read a learned article on the courtship rituals of animals, and what follows is a hilarious comedy of courtship. |
| F Gil |
Gilson, Jamie. Hello, My Name
is Scrambled Eggs. When Harvey Trumble's parents host a family of Vietnamese refugees, Harvey figures he'll show the new kid the ropes. Tuan thinks hot dogs are really made from dogs, and when Harvey demonstrates his hair dryer, Tuan thinks it's a real gun. Harvey has |
| F Gre |
Greenwald, Sheila. Will the
Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up. Gertrude, who doesn't fit in and who isn't happy with herself, is left with her cousin's family while her parents take a business trip to Greece. This proves to be quite an occasion. |
| F Hen |
Hentoff, Nat. This School
is Driving Me Crazy. Sam, a very funny sixth grader, does the most maddening things at school and at home, but proves he is honest and trustworthy as well. |
| F Kel |
Keller, Beverly. Fowl Play,
Desdemona. Desdemona volunteers to make posters for the school play. She hasn't done this kind of thing before. When her best friend, Sherman, offers to help she accepts gratefully. But, why was he being so secretive? |
| F Ken |
Kennedy, S.A. Hey, Didi Darling. Five girls in a rock band can't get jobs because they're girls, so they dress as boys and get their first job. Some very funny problems occur. |
| F Ker |
Kerr, M.E. Little Little. Little Little La Belle, a dwarf, is an heiress soon to turn eighteen. Her parents plan a birthday bash, inviting nearly all the TADS (the America Diminutives), scheming to marry her off to their ace-in-the-hole. |
| F Kid |
Kidd, Ronald. Sammy Carducci's
Guide to Women. A four-foot-two sixth grader, the shortest boy in the class, gets pointers from his handsome older brother on handling women, and tries them out on a classmate. |
| F Kid |
Kidd, Ronald. Sizzle and Splatt. When the Pirelli Youth Orchestra's rehearsal room is vandalized and the orchestra is warned not to play Hans Kleiman's "Trumpet Concerto" at the fall concert, no one can figure out why. Sizzle, Prudence Szyznoski, the star trumpet player, joins her b |
| F Kim |
Kimmel, Eric A. One Good Tern
Deserves Another. Pekel Floyd is 14 years old and has just moved to a town on the Oregon Coast with his feisty, banjo playing mom. He gets swept up into his new life of bird watching, sunken treasure, and octopus shows. Best of all, he meets smart and beautiful Tani, |
| F Kor |
Korman, Gordon. The Twinkie
Squad. Chaos spreads when Douglas, the most eccentric sixth-grader in Thaddeus G. Little Middle School, joins the Twinkie Squad, a special counseling group for problem students. |
| F Kor |
Korman, Gordon. The War With
Mr. Wizzle. Bruno and Boots form a Coalition with their fellow students and try to get rid of their teacher, Mr. Wizzle. They simulate earthquakes, program nonexistent students into Wizzle's computer, and even hide all his computer paper--replacing it with paper |
| F Ler |
Leroe, Ellen. Meet Your Match,
Cupid Delaney. Cupid Delaney is at it again. To earn her cupid wings, this irrepressible emissary from the Love Bureau must pass a final test--create the most romantic prom imaginable at Woodside High. |
| F Low |
Lowry, Lois. Your Move, J.P. J.P. Tate is suddenly walking into walls, tripping over his feet, using deodorant, and forgetting all about chess. Could he be in love with Angela, the new girl with the terrific British accent? J.P. invents a scheme that gets Angela's full attention |
| F Man |
Manes, Stephen. Comedy High. When Ivan Zellner and his father move to Carmody, Nevada which calls itself "The Future Entertainment Capital of the world," Ivan feels like he has been dropped onto an alien planet. The new high school is a remodeled hotel. |
| F McK |
McKenna, Colleen O. Mother
Murphy. This is an hilarious account of a "typical" day at the Murphy house when big sister, Collette, volunteers to be "mom" for a day for her three siblings because her pregnant mom has been ordered to bed by her doctor. |
| F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean. Mop, Moondance,
and the Nagasaki Knights. After T.J. and his younger brother are adopted, the biggest problems they face are winning an international baseball tournament, held in their New Jersey hometown, and helping a homeless teammate. |
| F Nay |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Reluctantly
Alice. Alice is hoping to make seventh grade the year everybody likes her. Meanwhile, the normal uproar continues in her motherless three-person family. This book is pure entertainment grounded in good sense and family values. |
| F Nay |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The
Boys Start the War. Disgusted that a family with three girls has moved into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three brothers declare a practical-joke war on the girls. |
| F Pas |
Pascal, Francine. The Hand-Me-Down
Kid. Eleven-year-old Ari Jacobs, the youngest in her family, is convinced that her sole purpose is to inherit all the things no one wants anymore. When Rhona, the school bully, convinces Ari to "borrow" her older sister Elizabeth's new 10-speed bike for a |
| F Pec |
Peck, Richard. Bel-Air Bambi
and the Mall Rats.Pec. Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, three totally cool siblings from Los Angeles, move with their parents to Hickory Fork, a small town terrorized by a high-school gang. |
| F Pec |
Peck, Richard. The Dreadful
Future of Blossom Culp. Blossom is entering high school now and is trying to conform, i.e., not use her "second sight", as it just gets her into trouble. But some interesting situations occur, culminating in a very eventful Halloween. |
| F Pec |
Peck, Robert Newton. Soup
in Love. As Valentine's Day approaches their Vermont hometown of Learning, Soup and Rob experience several forms of love. |
| F Pin |
Pinkwater, Jill. Buffalo Brenda. Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the football team. |
| F Sch |
Schwartz, Joel L. Best Friends
Don't Come in Threes. When Richie returns from summer camp, he can't wait to see his best friend, Paul, and begin plans for a fantastic freshman year in high school. But Paul has a new friend, Tony. |
| F Spi |
Spinelli, Jerry. Who Put That
Hair in My Toothbrush? The sibling rivalry between twelve-year-old Megin and her older brother Greg intensifies after she ruins his science project and he retaliates by throwing her favorite hockey stick into the pond. |
| F War |
Wardlaw, Lee. Seventh-Grade
Weirdo. It doesn't take much to be a seventh-grade weirdo when your name is Christopher Robin and you're the older brother of a genius named Winnie. |
| F Wit |
Wittman, Sally. Stepbrother
Sabotage. Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake, until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front. |