Stephen Manes

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    May 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Hooples

The Hoople's Haunted House (Sep-1981)
Hooples on the Highway (Jun-1985)
Hooples' Horrible Holiday (Nov-1986)

Oscar J. Noodleman

1 - That Game from Outer Space (May-1983)
2 - The Oscar J. Noodleman Television Network (Jan-1984)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Mule in the Mail

  • The Boy Who Turned into a TV Set

    Although his mother warns him that if he continues to watch television so much he will turn into one, Ogden Pettibone does not believe her until he discovers a clear, color picture glowing on his stomach...

  • Slim Down Camp

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!: The hilarious saga of a summer at the world's worst weight-loss camp: Sam Zimmer's parents might as well have sent him to prison for the summer. Camp Thin-na-Yet is all about losing weight,...

  • The Hoople's Haunted House

    Hooples

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway:
     
    Alvin Hoople can't face Halloween without the annual haunted house in the neighbors' garage. But when that neighbor's steami...

  • Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

    Milo Crinkley perfect? You've got to be kidding! One day at the library, a book fell off the top shelf and hit Milo on the head. It was called Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! The book's author, Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish, didn't look too ...

  • I'll Live

  • Video Wars

    From the author of The Obnoxious Jerks, a tale of hardcore gamers who try to keep their town from banning arcades . . .

    It's 1983, long before the heyday of personal computers and home consoles, so the only serious videogames are the wildly po...

  • How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

    Is it possible? Can an ordinary human being really become a perfect person in three short days?

    Milo Crinkley thought so. What gave him the idea was a book that fell on his head one day at the library--a book with the impressive title Be a Pe...

  • That Game from Outer Space

    Oscar J. Noodleman - 1

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! and the Pulitzer prize-winning illustrator of Uncle Pirate:

    The giant video game that appears one day in Pete's Pizza Palace is the strangest one Oscar Noodleman has ever seen. It look...



  • The Oscar J. Noodleman Television Network

    Oscar J. Noodleman - 2

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, a hilarious story of high-tech revenge . . . The biggest problem in Oscar J. Noodleman's life is Norval Molarsky, the bully who lives upstairs. The biggest surprise in his life is the test m...

  • Life Is No Fair!

  • Hooples on the Highway

    Hooples

    “Oh No! … This can’t be happening!” Alvin Hoople just can't wait to get to Philadelphia. He'll see the Liberty,Bell, Independence Hall, and the U.S. Mint. The best thing will be the Phillies baseball game. Alvin is the world's biggest Phil...

  • Hooples' Horrible Holiday

    Hooples

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway and The Hooples' Haunted House:

    Thanksgiving! Turkey! Pumpkin pie! Parades! Alvin Hoople and his family are off to his grandpar...

  • Chicken Trek

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    CHICKEN FOR BREAKFAST... ...and lunch, dinner, and in-between snacks -- 211 chicken meals in all! That's what Oscar has to eat to win a chicken-eating contest and save his inventor cousin from a horrible fate. But it won't be easy. A woman with...

  • The Great Gerbil Round-Up

    Gerbil was an absolutely ordinary little community. But things began to change… When the sleepy town of Gerbil, Pennsylvania, decides to put itself on the map with the First National Drive-Thru Museum of American Sightseeing and Clean Rest Rooms...

  • Monstra vs Irving

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    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the monstrously hilarious tale of a battle between brother and sister:

    Everybody thinks Irving's little sister is adorable. Everybody but Irving. To him, Claire is nothing but ...

  • It's New! It's Improved! It's Terrible!

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COMMERCIAL STEPS OUT OF YOUR TV SET AND INTO YOUR LIFE? The ads on TV said the basketball shoes were New! IMPROVED! Amazing! NEAT! Arnold Schlemp just had to have them. He had to. That was all there was to it. But by the end...

  • The Obnoxious Jerks

    Who are the Obnoxious Jerks?A: The weirdest band of total misfits ever seen at any known high school in the free world.B: Amateur comedians whose routines include kazoos, used chewing gum, and gooey lemon meringue pies.C: Members of a club whose Offi...

  • Some of the Adventures of Rhode Island Red

    From the bestselling author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! and the Academy-award-winning creator of Rolie Polie Olie comes the big tall tale about a pint-size hero:

    Meet Rhode Island Red, an egg-sized human who's the greatest hero ...



  • Chocolate-Covered Ants

  • Comedy High

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, a biting satire about growing up contrarian in an all-American town:

    Bright lights! Dancing girls! Cheap eats! Gambling (but only if you're over 21). Sun! Fun! The world's third-large...

  • An Almost Perfect Game

    What if you and your scorecard could control the biggest baseball game of the year?
     
    There's a wild, weird night of baseball in store for Nottingham Shoppers fan Jake Kratzer. The pennant is on the line, and it's do or die for his favorite ...

  • Make Four Million Dollars$ by Next Thursday!

    Here's the best-selling sequel to the hilarious Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

    Is is possible? Can an ordinary kid become a multimillionaire in one short week?

    Jason Nozzle thought so. What gave him the idea was a book he dug u...

  • The Hooples' Haunted House

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway:Alvin Hoople can't face Halloween without the annual haunted house in the neighbors' garage. But when that neighbor's steaming cauldron ...

Award-Winning Books by Stephen Manes

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
1986 Nene Award -- Children's Fiction
1987 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Manes has published 24 books.

Stephen Manes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Hooples' Haunted House, was published in May 2012.

The first book by Stephen Manes, Mule in the Mail, was published in November 1978.

Yes. Stephen Manes has 2 series.
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