The Adventures of Homer Fink is a story of youth's first awareness of power and philosophy and love. It is peopled with characters as real as your next door neighbors and yet uniquely extraordinary. Above all this is a tale full of humor and affection and the wonder of growing up.

Considering learning to fly? Read this book before making up your mind about what you want to fly. You might be surprised at what you might learn.

Considering learning to fly? Read this book before making up your mind about what you want to fly. You might be surprised at what you might learn.

Such is the plight of Toothless Barry, one of many oddball characters you'll meet in this charming collection of poems and drawings by Terry and Debbie Everton. You will also be introduced to Gossipin' Gordon; Busy Billy Bippleblap, who's always in a rush; Grouchy Gretchen, who's really quite a grump; Wanderin' Willie and Wise Mindy Mindleblest.

So come grow some watermelon popcorn. Listen to the world's funniest joke. Get visited by two-headed martians and talking ants. Wear smaller clothes. Avoid hugging porcupines. Talk like a moose. These are just some of the exciting adventures awaiting you in the strange and wonderful world these poems will take you to.

“It is a Diary!”

As I put this last piece of information together, one student’s comment comes to mind, “Driving is not a contact sport!”

This class was great and I am grateful to have taught them.

“You are the best generation yet.”

I wish them all the luck in the world, and the stars if they choose to touch them!

So, if you like to read poems that excite and delight, titillate and amuse (and make you wanna jump right out of your shoes), then you've gotta read Macaroni on the Moon!

"Macaroni on the moon... I laughed 'till I cried, I cried 'till I laughed... I hiccuped a little too."

--Uncle Max

When you read this book you'll learn about baseball's great legends like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, and Reggie Jackson. You'll marvel at the exploits of the game's unsung heroes like Bill Mazeroski, Edgar Renteria and Chad Curtis. You'll journey as far back as the 1920's when President Coolidge cheered on the "Big Train" Walter Johnson, and up to the 1990's where you'll hear what it was like to share a box seat with Ted Turner and George Steinbrenner.

All along you'll delight in Grandpa Gordy's insightful, sometimes hilarious and always entertaining renditions of our national pastime's greatest games.

Learning “write from wrong” can be so confusing for kids. Often the results are laugh-aloud funny, unintentionally clever, or accidentally wise. This charming book of blunders is comprised of teachers’ and parents’ “favorites.” It expresses the timeless truth that the most strange and wonderful things often come from the minds of children.

So get prepared to laugh and have fun as you read about all the wrong things that kids write and think is right!

The Poetry part-No where else, except maybe some other places on the web, will you find poetry like this. It takes real life and warps it to show how it really is and turns what normally just sucks bad, into a total laugh fest. After you read this book it'll be a lot easier to understand teenagers and the life situations that they encounter every day. Plus it's just a good-ass book to read.