Featuring hundreds of amusing illustrations, fun fonts, and easy-to-read content, this book is filled with bite-sized tidbits divided into fun categories covering a wide range of subjects. For example, there’s Green Stuff (“Grasshoppers hear with the fronts of their knees”) and Microscopic Miracles (“There are more creatures in your mouth than there are humans on Earth”), and such comical categories as Facts About Feet and Eww, Gross! Like all the books in this series, this one is loaded with surprising factual information, presented in a format irresistible to young readers.

We admit it: Uncle John wasn’t a great student. He’d rather draw plungers or make fart noises than read boring school books. So we made this book with little Uncle John in mind. It’s full of fun facts and funny illustrations--all designed to make your teacher squirm. It’s got the weird. It’s got the wacky. And it definitely has the gross. So hide this book from the grownups as you check out . . .

- Icky eats: fried spiders and candy-coated larvae
- Hunting for real hidden treasures
- The history of doughnuts
- How to make armpit farts
- Goofball students who grew up to be president
- Wrong facts your teacher thinks are true
Plus dumb crooks, amazing kids, animal oddities, and a whole lot more!

Lexile score: 1010L

Adults, stop reading now. We mean it. This book is top secret and it's for kids only! (Are the grownups gone? Good.) Now that it's just the kids, we'll let the cat out of the bag: this book is full of disgusting things and nasty (but funny) pranks. It's also packed with weird superstitions, freaky facts, unbelievable myths and legends, and did we mention gross stuff? Like boogers. And farting ghosts. And armpit sniffers. And entomophagy. (What's that? It's the practice of eating worms.) But there's more than just gross stuff in this illustrated and easy-to-read book. You'll be briefed in how to make your own secret code, where the Jolly Roger pirate flag came from, mermaid tales and other unbelievable sightings, the original alchemist and the search for the philosopher's stone, the Captain Underpants story, a secret recipe for edible glass, sneakers of the future, and much, much more!

Lexile score: 1000L