The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.

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Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.

The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"--

When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.

The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

A parody of the accumulative rhyme "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" in which a guest at a Thanksgiving dinner eats everything in sight.

The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween.