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Funny Chapter Books

Do you love to laugh? These stories will provide giggles from beginning to end. This list starts with books for younger kids and gets progressively older. #CedarMill&BethanyLibraries #WiserKids #WCCLS

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  • Grades 1-2. After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
    Book, 2005Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2005. — J DICAMILLO, K.
  • Captain Pug

    the Dog Who Sailed the Seas

    James, Laura, 1979-
    Grades 1-3. Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!
    Book, 2017New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. — J JAMES, L.
  • Grades 1-3. Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate "big deal" mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden.
    Book, 2016New York : Amulet Books, 2016. — + ANGLEBERGER, TOM INSPECTOR #1
  • Grades 1-3. They're darling. They're daring. They know their shapes! They're chicks on a mission, and on this, their first (mis)adventure, the Chicken Squad launches a galactic backyard expedition. These chicks are not your typical barnyard puffs of…
    Book, 2014New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014] — J Cronin
  • Grades 2-4. You've probably heard of the boy who cried wolf, but do you know what happened after no one believed him? Well, according to Stinky, the boy moves away to the Big City, where he gets a job crying wolf for The William D. Wolfe Company,…
    Book, 2024New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. — FIRST CHA STINKYS STORIES #001
  • Grades 2-4. For Ember, a rescue Chihuahua and the newest pet in the Chin family, the first step in fulfilling his destiny to rule the world is to defeat the evil neighborhood squirrel, Masher.
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Inc., 2022. — FIRST CHA PETS RULE #001
  • Grades 2-4. Weir Do, the new kid in school with an unforgettable name, desperately tries to fit in and win the attention of Bella Allen, his crush.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2019] — J DO, A.
  • Bad Kitty

    Puppy's Big Day

    Bruel, Nick,
    Grades 2-4. Uncle Murray takes Puppy on a walk on a day that Bad Kitty is being unusually difficult, but has several unpleasant encounters with a police officer and one mean dog along the way.
    Book, 2015New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015. — J Bruel
  • Grades 2-4. 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…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — J SELFORS, S.
  • Grades 2-4. Danny Dragonbreath and his friend Wendell get an up-close underwater tour of the Sargasso Sea from Danny's sea-serpent cousin, encountering giant squid and mako sharks--and learn about standing up to bullies in the process.
    Book, 2009New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2009] — + VERNON, URSULA DRAGONBREATH #1
  • Grades 3-5. Fifth grader Penny, who doodles to cope with anxiety, worries that her best friend is drifting away.
    Book, 2023New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. — J Shepard
  • Grades 3-6. Starting at a new school is hard enough for an anxious kid like Teddy. But Ravensbarrow Elementary seems extra unsettling. First, there are the zombielike kids and teachers, with their vacant stares and strange, echoey voices. Then there…
    Book, 2024Toronto : Annick Press, 2024. — J HALLETT, B.
  • Grades 3-5. Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family.
    Book, 2020New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. — J MIAN, Z.
  • Grades 3-5. Twelve-year-old Henry Khoo embarks on a forbidden journey from Australia to Singapore to prove his independence to his overprotective family, while working out some problems with friends. Told in comics and prose.
    Book, 2020New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — JGN LAI, R.
  • Funny Girl

    Funniest. Stories. Ever.

    Grades 3-5. A collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. — J FUNNY
  • Grades 3-5. The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the…
    Book, 1982New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. — J DAHL, ROA
  • Grades 3-5. While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.
    Book, 2013New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013] — J Gaiman
  • Grades 3-5. Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
    Book, 2004New York : Little, Brown, 2004, c2003. — J COWELL Cressida #001
  • Grades 3-5. The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Scholastic Inc., [2017] — J GRAPHIC BADGUY
  • Grades 3-5. Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making…
    Book, 2013Feiwel & Friends 2013/04/16