Who doesn't like humor? If you like humor, read Awful End, the first book in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh! When Eddie was only thirteen, his parents got an awful disease that turned his parents yellow, crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot water bottles. The disease was very catchy, so Eddie had to go with his Great Mad Uncle Jack and his Even-Madder Aunt Maud back to their house, where he would stay until his parents got better.
This book has the best characters ever! They are hilarious. One of the funniest characters was the doctors, because his prescriptions were totally ridiculous, such as sucking on ice cubes shaped like famous generals heads, and having their sheets replaced with brown paper bags glued together with the extra pieces of sticky papers you some times get at the post office if you buy more than one stamp. But my favorite character was Eddies Even-Madder Aunt Maud. She had a stuffed stoat named Malcom, and seemed to think he was real, so she was always talking to him, and Eddie thought she was talking to him, so he got in trouble with her a lot. Maud has a very interesting living life style. In the carriage they are traveling in to Awful End (their house) she makes everyone sit on one side of the carriage while the other is empty, and at the end of a story she sees a carnival float cow, and falls in love with it, and decides to live in her. I think if you like humor, you should read this book.