Tales To Tickle the Funnybone Books in Order

Jacob Freisten wants to remain unnoticed, but passing English requires him to join the school play's stage crew. Operating the fog machine becomes especially awkward when the girl he likes is cast as the Wicked Witch.

Sent to relatives' farm for the summer, an eleven-year-old boy encounters exhausting chores and his cousin Harris's relentless pranks. Their adventures bring mishaps and friendship while offering a sense of home absent from his troubled family life.

Fourteen-year-old Harold Schernoff believes science can solve problems involving dating, bullies, money and sports. When he and his friend test those theories, their disastrous experiments turn ordinary teenage difficulties into comic adventures that challenge Harold's confidence in his methods.

Twelve-year-old Tony sketches dancers at the club where his mother works. When the drawings reach a public exhibition, social services question her parenting, and Tony's mother fights to defend their family and his right to make art.

Sixth-grader Molly McGinty depends on her organized notebook to keep life under control. Losing it on the day her unpredictable grandmother joins her at school turns an ordinary schedule into a series of increasingly chaotic mishaps.

Twelve-year-old Duane Homer Leech records twenty days of embarrassing changes, awkward encounters and school disasters as puberty takes over his life. Watching a baby bird outside his window offers an unexpected companion to his own uncertain growing up.