What is the title of this satirical realistic fiction comedy novel for children and teenagers by the author who created "Poptropica?"
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Poptropica Poptropica is an online role-playing game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15. "Poptropica" was primarily the creation of Jeff Kinney, the author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. As of 2015, he remains at the company as Creative Director.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a satirical realistic fiction comedy novel for children and teenagers written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. It is the first book in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. The book is about a boy named Greg Heffley and his struggles to fit in as he begins middle school.
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The Simulacra The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology.
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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy Dublin 4 rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the "Sunday Tribune" newspaper and later transferred to "The Irish Times". The series comprises fourteen novels, three plays, a CD, two other books and the newspaper column, as of 2014.
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Comic novel A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole.
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The Teenage Workbook The Teenage Workbook, or, The passing of an April shower is a humour fiction novel by Adrian Tan, first published by Hotspot Books in 1989. The book is the sequel to "The Teenage Textbook" (published in 1988). Both novels focused on the lives of four students studying at the fictitious Paya Lebar Junior College in Singapore.
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Paint Your Dragon Paint Your Dragon is a humorous novel by Tom Holt first published in the UK in 1996 by Orbit and in paper back a year later by St. Martin's Press. It was also made available in electronic format by Hachette Digital in 2009. This was the author's twelfth humorous book and his eighteenth overall. It has been republished as part of Tom Holt's "Omnibus No'7: Saints and Sinners". Inspired by the legend of St. George and the Dragon, the book tells the story of a sculptor, Bianca Wilson, who creates statues of St. George and the Dragon. These statues come to life and carry on their battle where they left off. The story is intertwined with other minor plots that supplement the main theme and ultimately aid it to its conclusion.
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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Pinocchio Pinocchio ( ; ] ), the name a variant of common "pinolo" ("pine seed"), or "pine's eye" ("occhio", the Italian word for eye), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He lies often.
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Arto Paasilinna Arto Tapio Paasilinna (born 20 April 1942 in Kittilä) is a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of the most successful novelists of Finland, he has won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Julian Popov Julian Popov (Bulgarian: Юлиан Попов ) (born in 1959 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-British writer and public figure. In 2013 he was Bulgarian government minister. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" (2004), the novel "Island of Mists" (2006), co-author of the book "The European Supergrid" and of many comment and opinion articles on energy policies, European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British (BBC Three, The Independent, Financial Times, Huffington Post, The Scotsman), Polish and other European media. as well as for Al Jazeera. Popov has been an advocate for minority groups in Bulgaria, starting a campaign to remove a racist anti-Gypsy group from Facebook and writing articles (for instance for Aljazeera) on the maltreatment of gypsies in Bulgaria and across Europe.
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Robert Popper Robert Darren Popper is a British comedy producer, writer, actor, and author, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary "Look Around You", and creator of Channel 4's sitcom "Friday Night Dinner". He also wrote the books "The Timewaster Letters", "Return of The Timewaster Letters" and "The Timewaster Diaries" under the pseudonym Robin Cooper.
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Mrs. Pepperpot Mrs. Pepperpot (Norwegian: Teskjekjerringa , Swedish: Teskedsgumman , translation: the teaspoon lady) is a fictional character in a series of children's books created by the Norwegian author Alf Prøysen.
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Satire Ménippée The Satire Ménippée (] ) or "La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne" (written in 1593, published in Tours in 1594) was a political and satirical work (in French) in prose and verse which criticized the excesses of the Catholic League and Spanish pretensions during the Wars of Religion in France and defended the idea of an independent but Catholic France. The title derives from the classical Roman literary genre "menippean satire" which included a mixture of prose and verse.
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Philip Toynbee Theodore Philip Toynbee (25 June 1916 – 15 June 1981) was a British writer and communist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called "Pantaloon", a work in several volumes, only some of which are published. He also wrote memoirs of the 1930s, and reviews and literary criticism, the latter mainly via his employment with "The Observer" newspaper.
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The Rise of the Meritocracy The Rise of the Meritocracy is a satirical novel by British sociologist and politician Michael Young which was first published in 1958. It describes a dystopian society in a future United Kingdom in which intelligence and merit have become the central tenet of society, replacing previous divisions of social class and creating a society stratified between a merited power holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less merited. The essay satirised the Tripartite System of education that was being practised at the time.
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David A. Carter David A. Carter (born March 4, 1957) is an American author and illustrator. He is best known for his pop-up books for both children and adults. His "Bugs" series has sold over 6 million copies.
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Tomi Ungerer Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (born 28 November 1931) is a French illustrator and a writer in three languages. He has published over 140 books ranging from much loved children's books to controversial adult work and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He is known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms.
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Peter Pan (disambiguation) Peter Pan is a fictional boy who refuses to grow up, created by Scottish author J. M. Barrie.
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Jess Brallier Jess M. Brallier (born May 31, 1953) is a publisher working in various media, genres, and formats, such as bestselling books, popular web sites, apps, and virtual worlds including Poptropica, one of the Internet's largest virtual worlds for kids. He helped launch bestselling brands such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Galactic Hot Dogs; and extended the Poptropica brand into toys, global education, and books. He is also the author or co-author of 31 books, including Lawyers and Other Reptiles.
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Paul the Puppeteer Paul the Puppeteer (German: Pole Poppenspäler ) is an 1874 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It is about a Frisian woodturner who tells the story of how he got his nickname.
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Desa Muck Desa Muck (born 29 August 1955) is a Slovenian writer, children's writer and actor. She works as a free-lance artist and writes newspaper columns, radio plays, but is best known for her juvenile fiction.