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8 Aloud- Humor

Read aloud or listen to these librarian-recommended humorous chapter books.

Toledo Library

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  • When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, seafaring journey.
    BookNew York : Harpercollins Childrens Books, [2013] — jF
  • What if one day you decided to stop calling a word like pen "pen" and started calling it something else--like "frindle"? When Nicholas Allen does just that, and encourages all of his friends to start using the new word, his experiment…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. — jF
  • Packed with energetic black-and-white drawings and plenty of action, this book tells the boisterous tale of a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt down the fiercest dragon in the land, but ends up with the smallest, most ornery…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown, 2004. — jF
  • When their elderly owner goes to the hospital, Butterbean the dachshund, Walt the cat, Oscar the mynah bird, and rats Marco and Polo plan a robbery to support themselves.
    BookNew York City : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020] — jF
  • Funny Girl

    Funniest. Stories. Ever.

    A collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2017. — j 817 Fun
  • When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
    BookBoston : Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ; [2019] — jF
  • When Kansas Bloom moves to California and joins the Media Club at school, he soon finds himself trying to outdo one of the other fourth-grade students in a "dare war" while vying for the job of on-air video homeroom announcer.
    BookNew York : Philomel Books, [2012] — jF
  • Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing treehouse in the world! This treehouse has 13 stories, a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a secret underground laboratory, and a…
    PaperbackNew York : Square Fish, 2015. — jF
  • Four bumbling princes are thrown out by their respective fairy tale princesses. The princesses have their own personality quirks, but all together they battle the less savory creatures in the kingdom and have their own versions of happy,…
    BookNew York : Walden Pond Press, [2012] — jF
  • Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, 2012. — Fiction
  • This seriously funny, modern family adventure follows a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, 2014. — jF
  • After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him.
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — jF
  • When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — jF
  • While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine…
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — jF