RECOMMENDED READS YOUNG FICTION : FUNNY
YF GUTM, D
YF BECK, A
MISS BANKS PULLS LOT OF PRANKS
FURBALL: SPY CAT Adrian Beck
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?
JDespite FULL 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 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?
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.