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Try Some Fiction That's Funny!
This list includes both light reads and books with darker humor, as well
as books for younger and older teens.
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Bauer, Joan.
Hope Was Here
Hope and her aunt move
to Wisconsin to work at a diner and become
involved in a campaign to oust the town’s corrupt mayor. |
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Cabot, Megan. The
Princess Diaries series
A New York City 9th
grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as
Princess of Genovia in a series of diary entries. |
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Cohn, Rachel.
Gingerbread
After getting expelled
from boarding school and falling in love with a surfer, Cyd is sent to New
York City to spend time with her father. |
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Colfer, Eoin. The
Wish List
Meg Finn is dead, but
her good deeds perfectly balance the bad. So she’s back on Earth, trying
to tip the scales by helping her victim. |
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Conford, Ellen.
I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost
A collection of 7
humorous stories reflecting the ups and downs of teenage love and life. |
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Crutcher, Chris.
Ironman
While training for a
triathlon, 17-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school that
makes him think about his relationship with his father. |
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Danziger, Paula.
Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?
Confused about her
life at home and at school, 14-year-old Lauren learns the importance of
being her own person. |
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Ferris, Jean.
Love Among the Walnuts: Or How I Saved My Entire Family
From Being Poisoned
Sandy is shocked when he and his parents become victims of his greedy
uncles’ plot to incapacitate them and take their money. |
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Fleischman, Paul.
Seedfolks
One by one, several people transform a trash-filled vacant lot into a
beautiful garden. |
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Going, K.L.
Fat Kid Rules the World
Depressed, suicidal and obese, Troy gets a new perspective on life when a
homeless teenager (a genius on the guitar) wants Troy to be the drummer in
his band. |
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Grant, Cynthia.
The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt
Tiffany, head of the superficial cheerleading group called the Cannibals,
describes her senior year in her journal. |
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Hiaasen, Carl.
Hoot
Roy, who is new to his small Florida town, teams up with another boy to
save a colony of owls from a developer that wants to build on the vacant
lot. |
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Kindl, Patrice.
Goose Chase
Rather than marry someone she doesn’t like, an enchanted goose girl
endures imprisonment and capture before learning exactly who she is. |
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Lynch, Chris.
Slot Machine
Overweight 13-year-old Elvin is sent to camp, where he and his 2 friends
are forced to try out different sports to see where they belong. |
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Korman, Gordon.
Son of the Mob
Seventeen-year-old Vince’s life is complicated by the fact that he is the
son of a powerful Mafia boss dating the daughter of an FBI agent. |
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McCafferty, Megan.
Second Helpings
It’s Jessica Darling’s senior year, and her best friend has moved away.
She starts dating “hot brainiac” Len Levy and tries to get into Columbia
University. |
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Pinkwater, Daniel.
Lizard Music
Left home alone by his family, Victor becomes involved with intelligent
lizards who tell him about a little-known invasion from outer space. |
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Paulsen, Gary.
Harris and Me
The nameless narrator, an 11-year-old city boy, is sent to live with his
relatives on a farm in the 1950s. He and Harris live through pranks and
Aunt Clair’s constant, enormous meals. |
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Plummer, Louise.
My Name is Sus5an Smith, the 5 is Silent
Susan, a 17-year-old artist, meets the uncle whom she has idolized, and
whom the rest of the family won’t forgive, by chance one summer. |
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Rallison, Janette.
All's Fair in Love, War and High School
Cheerleader Samantha does poorly on the SAT and must win the election for
student body president in order to get into college. Will her talent for
insulting people get in the way? |
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Rennison, Louise.
Georgia
Nicholson series
The journal of a British teen who tries to reduce the size
of her nose, keep her cat under control, and win the love of handsome
Robbie. |
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Rylant, Cynthia.
God Went to Beauty School
A novel in poems that reveals God’s discovery of the wonders and pains in
the world that he created. |
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Sachar, Louis.
Holes
As further proof that his family is cursed, Stanley Yelnats is wrongly
sent to boot camp in the Texas desert, where he finds new friends and an
end to the family curse. |
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Shaw, Tucker.
Flavor of the Week
Cyril, an overweight teenager, is friends with Rose, but wishes he was
more. Nevertheless, he helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary
masterpieces that Cyril himself secretly creates. |
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Sleator, William.
Oddballs
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author’s youth and
peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends. |
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Thomas, Rob.
Rats Saw God
In order to graduate, Steve writes a 100 page essay that helps him sort
out his relationship with his astronaut father and figure how he became a
troubled teen. |
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Tolan, Stephanie.
Surviving the Applewhites
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent to artsy and eccentric
Applewhite family’s Creative Academy, where he discovers new talents. |
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Townsend, Sue.
The Adrian Mole Diaries
Naïve, earnest and self-absorbed British teen Adrian Mole details every
bit of his turbulent
adolescence in his secret diary. |
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Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Swear to Howdy
Two 13-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their
older sisters, family secrets, and the sense of guilt that binds them
together. |
