Gut-Busting Reads: Humorous Fiction for Young Adults
24 Girls in 7 Days
Bradley, Alex
Jack Grammar is a teen on the make who posts an ad for a prom date in the school's online newspaper. With over 200 responses, he eventually selects 24 girls whom he actually dates.
A is for AARRGH!
Brooke, William
Mog, a young boy living during the Stone Age, discovers words and language and teaches his fellow cave dwellers to talk, thus altering the course of history.
Absolutely, Positively Not
LaRochelle, David
Steven attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Choldenko, Gennifer
After moving to Alcatraz, Moose meets the warden’s daughter and gets involved in her crazy schemes, which often involves the prison’s notorious residents.
Alice, I Think
Juby, Susan
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last
Juby, Susan
With a mother in jail for environmental activism, a depressed, out-of-work father, and a boyfriend who goes to Scotland, what’s a girl to do but become a screen-writer?
All-American Girl
Cabot, Meg
Samantha is just an average teenage girl living in D.C. until she puts a stop to an assassination attempt against the President of the United States. Samantha's life is turned upside down.
Amazon Papers
Keller, Beverly
Fifteen-year-old Iris gets into hilarious trouble when her mother goes on vacation and leaves her home alone.
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
Rennison, Louise
The Sex God has left the country, taking Georgia's heart with him. So she decides to display glaciosity to all boys -- a girl can only have her heart broken so many times. But then she meets Masimo, the new singer for the Stiff Dylans.
Be More Chill
Vizzini, Ned
Jeremy Heere is an average high school dork, hopelessly in love with the beautiful Christine. His life changes when he gets a "squip": a supercomputer in pill form that communicates directly with the brain to make its user cool.
The Beetle and Me: a Love Story
Young, Karen R.
Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood.
Beauty Shop For Rent: Fully Equipped, Inquire Within
Bowers, Laura
Can Abbey earn a million dollars by age thirty-five working at her great-grandmother’s beauty shop, or will dating and her mother’s plans overset hers?
Born to Rock
Korman, Gordon
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
Confess-o-rama
Koertge, Ron
While his mother grieves the death of her fourth husband, Tony vents his feelings to the Confess-O-Rama, never suspecting who’s on the other end of the line.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Sheldon, Dyan
The vain, melodramatic, and utterly lovable Lola angles for acceptance in a new town and a new high school.
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Mackler, Carolyn
15-year-ol Virginia Shreves has issues with her body, along with dealing with boys, and just fitting into the world.
The Education of Robert Nifkin
Pinkwater, David M.
Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.
Gil's All Fright Diner
Martinez, A. Lee
Duke, a werewolf, and Earl, a vampire, make a pit-stop at a small town diner that has a major zombie problem and other supernatural “complications.”
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
Limb, Sue
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mom, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.
King Dork
Portman, Frank
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that The Catcher in the Rye may hold both the clues to the conspiracies around his dad’s death and attracting girls.
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
Rallison, Janette
High school freshmen Josie and Cami try to remain best friends as they compete for basketball awards and boys.
Love among the Walnuts
Ferris, Jean
Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money.
Oddballs
Sleator, William
Sleator reminisces of his childhood in a large, lively, and unconventional family in this collection of short stories.
The Princess Diaries
Cabot, Meg
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and heir to the throne.
Pulling Princes
O’Connell, Tyne
Kelly invents a fake boyfriend to become more popular at her English boarding school, but will he interfere with the attention of a real-life prince?
Rats Saw God
Thomas, Rob
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship to his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from a promising student to a troubled teen.
Rules of the Road
Bauer, Joan
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a sales woman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
The Schwa Was Here
Shusterman, Neal
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
Sea of Trolls
Farmer, Nancy
In A.D. 793 Jack and his sister Lucy are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and swept into a hilarious adventure-quest involving a willful mother dragon, a giant spider, a troll-bear, a shape-shifting half-troll, and several full-time trolls.
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Brashares, Ann
Four friends spend their first summer away from each other, keeping in touch by sharing a pair of magical blue jeans via the mail.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Lubar, David
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
Slot Machine
Lynch, Chris
When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul’s Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.
Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle
Korman, Gordon
When Vince heads to L.A. to go to college, he feels like he is finally going to be able to leave his shady family and their illegal antics behind. Soon, his brother Tommy is shacking up in his dorm room, and a steady stream of "uncles" are showing up with his mother's homemade rigatoni, and a whole lot of trouble.
Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies
Hartinger, Brent
In this sequel to Geography Club, best friends Min and Russel sign up to be extras on the set of a horror film and realize “that there's nothing scarier than high school romance!”
Squashed
Bauer, Joan
Growing the largest pumpkin in Iowa turns out to be easier for 16-year-ol Ellie than losing 20 pounds.
Sunshine Rider: the First Vegetarian Western
Hardman, Ric Lynden
Jumping at the chance to get out of boring Odessa, Seventeen-year-old Wylie Jackson lands a job as assistant cook on what will be his first cattle drive.
There’s Hair in my Dirt! A Worm’s Story
Larson, Gary
A worm is fed up with being a worm and complains at the dinner table.
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
Douglas, Lola
How will teen movie star Morgan Carter survive her enforced and anonymous retreat to a small Midwestern town after an overdose and rehabilitation?
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
Plummer, Louise
Kate hopes for romance when her older brother’s friend, Richard, comes to say at their house during Christmas vacation.
Vampire High
Rees, Douglas
When his family moves to New Sodom, Massachusetts, and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the supernaturally strong students, to Charon, to the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.
Year of Secret Assignments
Moriarty, Jaclyn
A high school pen pal program designed to bring together students from two different schools does not go quite as planned. The secrets and lies of the pen pals set off a war between the schools.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Banana Sunday
Nibot, Root
Not only is Kirby the new kid at school, she’s also the guardian of three talking apes!
NON-FICTION
How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
Wilson, Daniel H.
This is THE survival guide for all of you who are wondering how to “escape a murderous ‘smart’ house or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies!”