Books and Reading


Funny Fiction
Humorous Titles for Teen Readers


Younger Teens


Cover Image Unfamiliar Magic
Alexander, R. C. (Robert C.)


Twelve-year-old witch Desi secretly uses her mother's spellbook with unexpected results, including meeting her warlock father for the first time and becoming like sisters with Cat, who was once her mother's familiar.

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Cover Image Standard Hero Behavior
Anderson, John David, 1975-


When fifteen-year-old Mason Quayle finds out that their town of Darlington is about to be attacked by orcs, goblins, ogres, and trolls, he goes in search of some heroes to save the day.

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Cover Image The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney
Barnholdt, Lauren.


A seemingly harmless lie that she is popular and dating the most sought after guy in school sets off a chain reaction for Devon when she must find a way to live up to the popular image she touted.

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Cover Image Science Fair : A Story of Mystery, Danger, International Suspense, and a Very Nervous Frog
Barry, Dave.


The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the United States government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.

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Cover Image The Fast and the Furriest
Behrens, Andy.


The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.

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Cover Image Little Blog On the Prairie
Bell, Cathleen Davitt.


Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.

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Cover Image Cosmic
Cottrell Boyce, Frank.


12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good.

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Cover Image Hot Lunch
Bradley, Alex.


When Molly and Cassie are assigned to work in the kitchen as a punishment for their food fight, they realize that the only way they are going to be released from the duty is to cooperate and learn to cook. Includes some recipes.

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Cover Image Fat Cat
Brande, Robin.


Overweight teenager Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominins, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.

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Cover Image Carter Finally Gets It:
Crawford, Brent.


Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.

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Cover Image Lynn Visible
DeVillers, Julia.


Despite the derision of most of her peers for her fashion-forward designs and eclectic dress style, high-school freshman Lynn Vincent has always had confidence in her own creative abilities and sense of fashion until she is persuaded to audition for an online teen magazine and wears her most amazing creation.

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Cover Image The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Dionne, Erin, 1975-


Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal" eighth grader become increasingly difficult when her genius seven-year-old sister and her eccentric Shakespeare scholar parents both begin to attend her school.

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Cover Image The Call
Grant, Michael, 1954-


A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years.

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Cover Image Project Sweet Life
Hartinger, Brent.


When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.

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Cover Image Schooled
Korman, Gordon.


Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school.

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Cover Image Miracle Wimp
Kraft, Erik.


Presents episodes from the high school life of Tom Mayo, a wisecracking misfit, who is trying to navigate his way through Wood Shop, dating, driving, and class tormentors.

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Cover Image I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
Lieb, Josh.


In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

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Cover Image A Whole Lot of Wayne
McRobbie, David.




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Cover Image Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom
Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-


"When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Weiner after a series of disastrous relationships, Violet--with the help of her best friend, Phoebe--decides to take control"--P. [2] of cover.

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Cover Image The Schernoff Discoveries
Paulsen, Gary.


Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.

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Cover Image The True Meaning of Smekday
Rex, Adam.


When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.

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Cover Image How to Grow Up and Rule the World
Seegert, Scott.


A top supervillain offers rules and advice to readers on how to develop an evil plan to rule the world.

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Older Teens


Cover Image Going Bovine
Bray, Libba.


Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

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Cover Image Beat the Band
Calame, Don.


Paired with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a health class presentation on safe sex, tenth-grader Coop tries to regain his "cool" by entering his musically challenged rock group in the "Battle of the Bands" competition.

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Cover Image Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Cohn, Rachel.


Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

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Cover Image Repossessed
Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney)


A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.

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Cover Image Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath
Goldman, Steven, 1964-


Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.

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Cover Image An Abundance of Katherines
Green, John, 1977-


Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

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Cover Image My Most Excellent Year : A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park
Kluger, Steve.


Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

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Cover Image Disenchanted Princess
Linker, Julie.


When powerful Hollywood agent Jean-Claude Deschanel goes to prison for embezzlement, his teenage daughter West is sent to a small town in Arkansas to live with relatives she's never even met.

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Cover Image The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks : A Novel
Lockhart, E.


Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

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Cover Image My Summer On Earth
Lombardi, Tom




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Cover Image Gimme a Call
Mlynowski, Sarah.


After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self.

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Cover Image Fat Vampire : A Never Coming of Age Story
Rex, Adam.


After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.

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Cover Image Cloaked in Red
Vande Velde, Vivian.


Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.

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Cover Image Castration Celebration
Wizner, Jake.


Three high school students in a summer arts program at Yale University collaborate on an "anti-guy musical" with the working title, Castration Celebration.

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Cover Image How Not to be Popular
Ziegler, Jennifer, 1967-


Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom."

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