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21) Leaving home
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Revisit the beguiling comic world of Lake Wobegon. In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers ore about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching".--The Wall Street Journal.
22) The best of me
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Appears on list
Description
The American humorist, author, and radio contributor shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic, and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.
Series
This American Life volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for...
28) Babycakes
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Pub. Date
1994
Description
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
31) Cranial fracking
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The great humorist Ian Frazier gathers his dispatches from the frontlines of American culture. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. Its exactly like The Count of Monte Cristo apart from the many differences. Our lawyers have instructed us to warn you that reading it may directly cause you to come down with every single disease you are worried about contracting. On the plus side, our nations beloved and heroic critics have had their say.
Series
Comics Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"A collection of comics about every kid's favorite school subject: recess"--
36) Halloweenies
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror movies.
Author
Pub. Date
[1945]
Description
As James Thurber writes in his preface, "This book contains a selection of the stories and drawings the old boy did in his prime, a period which extended roughly from the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic to the day coffee was rationed. He presents this to his readers with his sincere best wishes for a happy new world." The Thurber Carnival, which the Saturday Review called "one of the absolutely essential books of our time," was a phenomenal bestseller...