As a former oddball kid (turned adult) I love every kind of funny read with wacky characters, silly situations, and endless laughs. All these books have something wacky to keep your young reader giggling and invested in the story. Below you’ll find a bunch of books for oddball kids of all ages to enjoy!!
Written by comedy legend and self-proclaimed oddball, Kate McKinnon! This is the second book in her genius, hilarious Millicent Quibb series! In the summer heat everyone flocks to the majestic lakeside Purple Pearl Hotel, including the Krenetics Research Association, a nefarious group of mad scientists. They are in search of the Purple Pearl! Rumored to be at the bottom of the lake… but Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch are on to them, and their mentor, Millicent Quibb, has a plan! Is it a good plan? Hard to say! But it does involve finding a mysterious creature called a Shrimpmaid, boiling the lake (and everything inside it), and retrieving the pearl before the KRA gets its evil hands on it! While Millicent and the gang work together, the sisters discover more secrets than they bargained for!!
The Weirdie siblings are special, definitely a bit odd, and like their last name states… weird. When the three Weirdie triplets are left in their gigantic, bleak mansion all alone they’re sent to the orphanage. There they meet their caseworker the lovely Miss Emily. Miss Emily has seen quite a few children go through the system, and just wants the best for the Weirdies, who through all their bizarreness have wormed their way into her heart. The kids are placed in a home on the picture-perfect block of Sunshine Circle! Despite Miss Emilys attempts to smooth their rough edges the triplets persist in their weirdness, always staying true to their family name. They cause chaos and mischief at every turn in their adoptive home… will it all end in disaster or will the Weirdies find a true family that loves and supports them as they are?
In this silly and fact-filled picture book, learn what having good manners means in the animal kingdom. Nature is full of naughty animals—from chimpanzees who pick their noses to pigs who play in mud. Children and mischievous adults alike will laugh out loud while learning some basic animal facts and realizing that, compared to the species depicted, they’re very well behaved!
The second story in the bestselling Roswell Johnson series! After just saving the planet earth, Roswell Johnson is bored, stuck at home with nothing to do. Meanwhile spaceships are being attacked without a reason, people disappearing without a trace, stars are dying without a cause, and someone has broken the evil General Xelic out of his maximum-security galactic prison!! Even The Milky Way Galactic Alliance can’t explain the bizarre phenomena! When Roswell’s beloved grandparents go missing, along with nine elderly residents of an assisted living home, Roswell and his quirky alien friends must reunite to solve the mysteries themselves!
Jacky is a funny class clown who loves to make people laugh—even when everything else in her life feels anything but silly. She has the irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation… even when she really, really shouldn’t. But she can’t help it, she LOVES to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who’s hardly ever home. Though on the outside she seems to just be Jacky Ha-Ha, on the inside she can’t seem to escape her worries. So one starlit night, she makes a promise to keep her family together…even if she has to give up the one thing that makes her happy. But can she simply stop being the silly goofy girl if that’s who she truly is…
A silly, oddball poetry book with a whole new cast of characters to meet! The Nail-Clipping Fairy (who delivers teeth at night), to Orloc the Destroyer (who can be defeated only by his mommy), to the Elderly Caveman (who complains about the younger generation obsessed with playing with fire). With plety of hilarious hijinks hiding around every corner, whether it’s a buffalo that escapes one poem and roams through others or a meteor threatening to land on the book and obliterate everything. There’s even a mini book-within-a-book! In between it all, cartoonist Andrea Tsurumi’s diverse range of exuberant people, creatures, and anthropomorphic objects ripple through the pages with playful energy. If your head has a bellyache as you read this book, it will only be because you’re laughing WAY. TOO. HARD!
