Books with title The Happy Yellow Car

Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their twelve-year-old daughter, Betty, to college. To make matters worse, Betty has been elected Pork-Fry Queen by her classmates and now she doesn't have the money needed to buy flowers for the teacher. What follows is a comedic chain of events that teaches the Grunts about the value of family.

A "wacky comedy set in dusty, small-town Missouri...Elected Pork-Fry Queen by her classmates, Betty must come up with a dollar for flowers or lose out to the teacher's pet. The task would be easier had her father not discovered Betty's college fund, which he has spent on a spiffy yellow car...Sheer delight...The cornball characters and the slapstick family dynamics snare readers on the very first page and keep 'em chuckling till the end."-Booklist

Jack, the little yellow taxi, used to be the fastest, brightest taxi around and traveled the city as if he had wings. If only he could fly. But something magical happens when Jack sees a bus that says, “Come to Brazil.” Before Jack knows it, he’s flying over the Brazilian rainforest and his new customers are macaws and howler monkeys! Jack couldn’t be happier, playing pass-the-coconut. But their fun comes to a halt when big bulldozers and cranky cranes start chopping down the rainforest. Why don’t you come back to the city and leave the forest alone? With a blink of an eye, Jack is back in the city. Could those be the same bulldozers he saw in the rainforest? Jack isn’t sure until he spies a coconut on the park bench and smiles to himself…anything is still possible.

What would you do if you were a 27 year-old with great looks, an upwardly mobile job that pays over $100,000 a year, and a fashion model girlfriend... but you were still unhappy with life? You'd go back to high school and start over, that's what! At least, that’s what Dax Nguyen decided to do. In THE HAPPY YEAR, Dax leaves all the trappings of his old life behind in a quest to find greater truths and the chance at a more stimulating routine. Travel with him as he becomes part of a prosperous new family, stars on the baseball team, and rediscovers young love--only not in the way he thought any of this would be! This work is 17 stimulating chapters long.