To Kick A Corpse

To Kick ACorpse by Tom Angleberger, 155 pages

This is the third and final book of the Qwikpick Papers.  Lyle, Marilla and Dave are the three members of the Qwikpick Adventure Society.  Although they thought their adventures would be over after finding the rat with a human face because Marilla got grounded and was forbidden to even talk to Lyle, Marilla decided that they had to kick over the dead slave master since he had been buried upright so that he could keep an eye on his slaves even after he died.  Marilla was angry enough about this that she was willing to break the rules, so the group hatched a plan to get there.  These books are funny and great for elementary age reluctant readers because they are fairly short and have a diary format with pictures.