Give Peas A Chance by Morris Gleitzman

This story has many different characters from Misery Guts, Blabber Mouth, Second Childhood, Belly Flop, Adults Only, Teacher's Pet, Worm Story and Aristotle's Nostril, all written by Morris Gleitzman.  It includes different stories, including a story about a boy called Macques who feels sad because of his name.

The main story is about a boy named Ben who goes on strike and, because of this, he refuses to eat vegetables, which he used to enjoy. The reason is because he saw innocent children being killed.

Soon, all of the world's children were going on strike, and immediately countries began destroying their weapons. The USA was last, and they broke promises, but finally decided they had to because their culture would be ruined if kids continued to not eat McDonald's.

Soon after all weapons were removed, though, the USA used vegetables to invade a country. Since Ben's parents declared that if Ben didn't eat his vegetables, he would receive his old vegetables for the next day's dinner, they immediately began taking a chunk of Ben's vegetables and eating them because they thought it was disgusting that the USA were using veggies to invade a country. 

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Matilda is a book about a little girl about 4 years old that has mean parents but has a very young and nice teacher who she likes a lot. Over her school years she has to deal with a frightening principal who throws the hammer and throws people into the Chokey (read about that in the book!). Suddenly she finds she has a magic power to levitate items and uses this to her advantage as to knock out her principal. Her family then have to move to Spain because her dad is in a bunch of crooks but then her parents allow her to stay at her teacher's house forever.