Collects a series of humorous short stories that explore the things kids think about, from what trees talk about to lies their mother tells them.

Returning to London after her ten-month honeymoon, Becky Bloomwood Brandon finds herself depressed by a lack of money, a search for a job, and her best friend Suze's new best friend, until she discovers that she has a long lost sister.

"Burrow into the unseen world of the wombat and play with words in this creative romp"--

In rhyming text a boy makes underpants for all his friends, from ants to dragons to piggy banks--before concluding that if they don not need underpants then neither does he.

"When fourth-graders Billy Hamilton and Sam Baptiste make a batch of super-secret slime for the upcoming AMERICA'S GOT SCIENCE auditions, everything goes horribly awry. Now they must find a way to stop their amateur science experiment from taking over all the adults in town and turning everyone into mindless zombies"--

Four members of a nineteenth-century London social club journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic adventures and a few legal scrapes.

Montgomery "Monty" Brewster counts his blessings when he inherits a million dollars from his late, rich grandfather. However, when his equally-wealthy uncle also dies, Brewster immediately inherits another seven million dollars. But there's a catch: Brewster will only receive his uncle's money if he spends all of his grandfather's money within one year.

A selection of ten dozen newspaper columns about what happened to America during the past quarter century.

Henry and Ali tell their teacher a wild outer space tale to explain why they do not have their homework on the solar system.

This collection of short writings is remarkable for its variety--both in terms of length and style. This might be attributed to Twain experimenting with form as growth, of moving from the brevity of his often humorous journalism toward themes that could sustain more lengthly treatment. This book has speeches, short stories, poems, hoaxes, satires, fables, travelogues, burlesques, first and third person narratives, and biographical and autobiographical...