David Lubar
4) Stage fright
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Accidentally an actor, Ed and his wacky friends have to perform on stage under a rare blue moon. Then the moon begins sucking Ed and his friends up into the sky. Only Ed knows how to control the strangeness.
11) Punished!
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Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
12) Dunk
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While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
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Collects a number of creepy and macabre stories featuring the Weenies, as a boy and his family maybe escape the zombie apocalypse, a girl faces dire consequences for neglecting her cat's litter box, and a line of wireless-device-obsessed Weenies follow one another off a cliff.
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The whole school is getting in on the action when a contest is announced: The student who creates the best project on New Cairo’s history will win a trip to the cool new water park in town. Charlie has a plan that can’t lose—as long as he doesn’t lose his life in the process. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
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Following a difficult freshman year, Scott Hudson is hoping that sophomore year will be easier, but after a disaster of a first week, he finds himself faced with new challenges--including a particularly demanding English teacher, a school board member whose budget cutting is covering up a crime, and the discovery that his friendship with Lee, the Goth girl he met last year, is turning into something else entirely.
17) Hidden talents
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When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.