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YOUNGFICTION:FUNNY
YF GUTM, D
MISS BANKS
PULLS LOT OF PRANKS
Dan Gutman
A J and his friends are starting fourth grade A new school year means a new teacher, and Miss Banks may be their weirdest one yet. She won’t stop playing practical jokes on the class, and A.J. has reached his breaking point. Will he and the gang learn to not fall for their teacher’s tricks? Or will Miss Banks prevail as the ultimate prankster?
YF MESS, K
FERGUS AND ZEKE FOR PRESIDENT
Kate Messner
It’s Presidents’ Day, and all the students in Miss Maxwell’s classroom are choosing their special projects. Classroom pets Fergus and Zeke want to participate, too! Zeke appoints himself president of their cage. But the power goes a bit to his head, and his “leading” and “supervising” leave Fergus to do all the work. Will these two mice be able to agree on what makes a good president in time to turn in their project with the rest of the class?
FURBALL: SPY CAT YF BECK, A
Adrian Beck
J FULL
Despite being the world's most famous spy, Furball is happiest napping or snacking. But when he and and his spy friends, Jade and Kit, visit a waterpark on their day off, they learn Furball's greatest enemy is using the park as a secret base! Can Furball and his friends stop them before they flood the city? Or will Furball get distracted by the snack bar?
YF CHAM, J
OLIVER’S GREAT BIG UNIVERSE
Jorge Cham
Oliver has a lot going on starting his first year of middle school! Determined to be an astrophysicist one day, Oliver explains everything he learns like how the sun burps, how ghost particles fly through you, the uncanny similarities between Mercury and cafeteria meatballs, and most important, how the Big Bang is basically just like a fart in the school hallway.
JOJO MAKOONS: THE USED-TO-BE BEST FRIEND
Dawn Quigley
Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.
YF KHAN, H
ZARA’S RULES FOR RECORDBREAKING FUN
Hena Khan
Meet Zara Saleem, the queen of the neighborhood. Zara's in charge of it all. When a new family moves in across the street, suddenly Zara's reign is threatened by Naomi, who has big ideas of her own about how the neighborhood kids can have fun. To get everyone to notice her again, Zara decides she's going to break a Guinness World Record--if her little brother Zayd doesn't mess things up. But when she finds herself increasingly alone in her record-breaking quest, Zara starts to wonder if sharing the crown and making a new friend might end up being the best rule of all.
YF NICH, T THE TERRIBLES
Travis Nichols
Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts and activities, this spooktacular story introduces the monsters who have settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove, giving readers a peek into the lives of vampires, mummies, gelatinous balls of goo and more!
Chase masterminds a series of epic pranks only to discover that they've all become real on April 2nd. When his tricks become reality, Chase must come clean. How will he set the world right again, catch the eye of his crush Zoe, and keep her from getting flattened by the refrigerator running all over town?
YF BROCK, M
FRANK AND THE BAD SURPRISE
Martha Brockenbrough
Frank the cat is happy at home with his two humans until they bring home a puppy who disturbs his entire way of life, so after running away and finding out how unwelcoming the world outside is he makes his way back to where he belongs.
