Mike Thaler

Rumor has it that the new gym teacher is a real monster, someone who works the students very hard and makes them participate in dangerous activities like playing dodge ball with his truck.

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

Hubie feels left out when his teacher announces a class costume party and he, unlike his classmates, has no ideas about what to wear.

There's a new class coming for the first day of school and Mrs. Green is worried. Is it true that the class is really weird and that they put their last three teachers into early retirement? Will the students really turn into horrible ghouls as soon as they get to school?

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 to invent and all of his friends have already started their projects! It comes down to a choice between cloning himself or building a laugh machine. Will his innovation be enough to earn a passing grade, or will mean Mrs. Green have the last laugh?

Eric is having a New Year's Eve sleepover, but Hubie has never spent the night away from home. He's going to be in a strange bed, in a strange room, in a strange house. What if Hubie gets sick or has a bad dream? What happens if Eric starts telling his cheesy jokes? And what's all this talk about making a New Year's revolution?

From the author and artist of the Tales from the Back Pew series comes a perfect story for every child who has gone to church summer camp and really didn't want to!In Church Summer Cramp, Mom's sending our hero to church summer cramp-I mean, camp. The woods are full of poison ivy, and you become a mosquito burrito and eat in a mess hall. How much worse (or fun) can it be? Church Summer Cramp:Part of the Tales from the Back Pew seriesFeatures full-color...

Hubie just feels sick because baseball fever is catching everyone. The only hit he had last year was when he got hit in the head by a ball. Will he make the big hit this year and knock the ball out of the park?

Halloween is here and that means costumes and candy. Hubie doesn't know what he wants to be this year.

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.