Mike Thaler

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the ''monstrous'' Mrs. Green.

A boy learns that a dentist will be visiting his school. He hears scary rumors about the dentist, but discovers there is no reason to be afraid of dentists.

The students in Mrs. Green's class are excited to hear they will be having a substitute teacher, but their plans for partying and having fun all day change when they see who the sub is and what he has planned for the day.

A young boy's imagined school trip makes the real trip look mundane.

Hubie has to do a report on a full book. Not a comic book. Not a picture book. A real book with chapters! How is he ever going to get through all those pages of words? Good thing there is the perfect book for every occasion.

Mean Mrs. Green says that everyone has to invent something for the school science fair. But everyone would rather invent a way to get out of it! Hubie can't decide on what he's going to do. He thinks all the good inventions have been done already. And all of his friends have figured out what they are going to do. He tries to decide between cloning himself or building a laugh machine. After a bad dream about cloning, he decides to build a laugh machine....