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Chapter Books to Make You LOL

We all know that reading is fun, but it can also be funny. If you like humorous heroes and silly situations, we've put together our list of favorite chapter books sure to tickle your funny bone. We dare you to stay serious with these seriously side-splitting books.

Canton Public Library

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  • This is a story about a ghost with amnesia, an unpopular fairy, an ungrateful little town and an extremely wise and helpful raven—who happens to be a great storyteller, if he does say so himself. It's also about a friendly little wizard who lives…
    Book, 2023San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2023] — JFICTION REX
  • Wanda makes a vow to find her true family, because she knows deep down that the one she lives with can't really be hers. She then gets a surprise visit from a talking bluebird who confirms her suspicion. He knows who has been meddling with her life.…
    Book, 2020Los Angeles ; New York : Disney * HYPERION, 2020 — JFICTION LURIE
  • As one of the peacock ambassadors for the Athensville Zoo, Plum is allowed to wander freely among the zoo’s visitors, delighting and guiding kids and grown-ups alike. When Itch the ningbing—a small mammal with an oversized ego—tries to take over the…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — JFICTION PHELAN
  • Loki

    a Bad God's Guide to Being Good

    Stowell, Louie,
    After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. As Loki suffers the misery of school lunch, discovers the magic of internet videos and keeps watch for frost giant spies, can he finally learn to tell good…
    Book, 2022Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2022 — JFICTION STOWELL
  • Monday

    Into the Cave of Thieves

    Lazar, Ralph,
    When the forces of chaos interrupt the most important meal of the day and conspire against him, his friends, his school, his town and the entire planet, Dash needs to take things into his own hands before crazy stuff starts to happen.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2021] — JFICTION LAZAR
  • Iggy's not a bad kid, he's really not. Okay, so he's done a few—a few is anything up to 100—bad things. He's not very sorry about most of them. People make a big deal about nothing, really. No one got hurt, so there's no problem. No one got hurt…
    Book, 2020New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] — JFICTION BARROWS
  • When a disgusting cup of tea awakens bizarre abilities in Greg, he discovers the true reason for his family's long history of failure and bad luck: they're Dwarves, part of a secret, supernatural community that (literally) went underground ages ago.
    Book, 2018New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — JFICTION RYLANDER
  • Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's family has a motto to live by. For his parents it's "Family and Pride," for his sisters it's "Conquer and Win." Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in: "Avoid Stuff." While spending the summer with…
    Book, 2021Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021] — JFICTION USS
  • Doug is doing his best to be normal. It's not easy: he's bad at jokes, he's lousy at sports and he lives in a creaky old mansion surrounded by gravestones. If that weren’t enough, he recently got crowned King of an underground race of Mole People.…
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019 — JFICTION GILLIGAN
  • When Sky is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she didn't imagine she'd end up in Area 51: a top-secret military base with a bajillion rules and secrets so classified not even the President knows them. Something mysterious is afoot in Area 51,…
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — JFICTION BUXBAUM
  • Saint lives with her mother in a poorer part of town. She is drawn to medieval knights, lost causes and the protection of birthday piñatas, but when she sees her favorite creaky old toy store is demolished, she hatches a plan to save what is left of…
    Book, 2023New York : Aladdin, 2023 — JFICTION PASTIS
  • Trey knows the routine. His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, they set up somewhere else and start…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024 — JFICTION KORMAN
  • Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class , until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he's been drawing for years into an actual movie! There's just one problem: he has no idea what he's doing.
    Book, 2021New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021] — JFICTION HART
  • Cooper just wants to spend the summer before seventh grade drawing and having adventures with his best friend. When one of their adventures goes too far, Cooper’s parents freak out. Now he must join the Boy Rangers, a dorky club that’s all about…
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, 2022 — JFICTION HALE