Jerry Mahoney: 6 books

As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet...

The buttheads have landed—and they're trying to wipe us out! My best friend Lloyd and I had the perfect plan. We started a blog to invite aliens to come to Earth and hang out—but only with us. That way, they wouldn't have to meet any boring world leaders or get cut open by scientists or anything...

It wasn't enough to ruin Maddie's report on Cinderella - her stepbrother, Holden, has somehow broken the ACTUAL fairy tale. The ugly stepsister is marrying the prince, and there's no happy ever after! The only way to fix it is by entering the story. But if Holden and Maddie can't solve the problem, they'll be stuck in the fairy tale world forever.

Karate-chopping dwarfs and a triumphant Wicked Queen - Maddie loves fairy tales but has somehow broken Snow White. Together with her disgusting, annoying, just plain full-of-himself stepbrother, they must enter the story to fix the unhappy ever after. And Holden might be leaving forever. Wait, WHAT?

Maddie is going to let Holden badmouth Aladdin all he wants. Whenever he makes fun of a fairy tale, the two stepsiblings find themselves sucked into the story to fix the problems he causes. Maddie is so ready to be a glamorous princess. But the part she's actually going to play is . . . no, it's just too cruel!

Maddie is ready to strangle her stepbrother. The story of Beauty and the Beast is broken, all because of Holden. He accused the Beast of kidnapping, and now the real Beast is in jail! Maddie and Holden have to visit the fairy tale world of rural France to repair this mess - and neither speak French.