Awesome / Boy's Life

• Cory jamming a broomstick down Old Mose's throat, for one.
• The calm and slow Mr. Lightfoot disabling a goddamn bomb while Mr. Moulry complains and insults him all the way, and then scaring the daylights out of him by imitating an explosion. That second part doubles as a Funny Moment.
• Pretty much the entirety of "High Noon in Zephyr", the chapter detailing a Showdown at High Noon as several unexpected heroes stand up to the local hoods during an attempted jailbreak.
• For most of the book Cory and his friends are picked on by a couple of bullies. Then they go too far and get both their asses handed to them for it by one of Cory's friends, who has spent the whole summer reading about boxing techniques.
• Every moment the nebbish Nemo shows off his pitching arm is stunning, especially when his last ball never comes down.
• Crazy Sane Vernon gets several reluctant townspeople to help out a flooded black neighborhood by delivering a threat from his father, their banker, that he is probably making up on the spot. He also turns out to be an Amateur Sleuth who makes several correct deductions about the traits the murderer must have that Cory later uses to identify the killer.
• Creepy Child "The Demon" turns out to be a chemistry whiz who pranks a Sadist Teacher with her skills without even being in the room.