Humor

F Ada	Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friends. Together, they journey through the galaxy. By the same author: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
F Avi	Avi. Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) At Last. It’s a school production of Romeo and Juliet with a bashful pain in the leading roles. – and everybody’s waiting for the kissing scenes. What they get is more action than Shakespeare every imagined, in the funniest, most disastrous, and most romantic.
F Bet	Bethancourt, T. Ernest. T.H.U.M.B.B. Tow boys, aspiring rock musicians, join the school orchestra, the only performing group in school, and proceed to remake it into the Hippest Underground Marching Band in Brooklyn.
F Cab	Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries. Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl 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.
F Coh	Cohen, Barbara. King of the Seventh Grade. A seventh-grade boy, who must attend Hebrew School after school, finds it boring and amuses himself and others by making jokes at the teacher’s expense. The next thing he knows, he finds himself expelled and unhappy.
F Con	Conford, Ellen. Dear Mom, Get Me Out Of Here. Trapped in a dreadful boarding school, Paul joins his classmates in attempting to uncover a shocking past of their headmaster, Mr. Pickles. By the same author: The Frog Prince of Pelhem.
F Cur	Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bucking the Sarge. Deeply involved in hi cold and manipulative mother’s shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen year old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
F Dah	Dahl, Ronald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Each of the five children lucky enough to discover an entr5y ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
F Dan	Danziger, Paula. There’s a Bat in Bunk Five. Marcy Lewis is a junior counselor at a summer camp, a job with many advantages, like a cute lifeguard, but also many disasters, including twelve camp pranksters.
F Fer	Ferris, Jean. Love Among the Walnuts. 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.
F Gan	Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. By the same author: Joey Pigza Loses Control.
F Gib	Gibson, Jamie. Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs. When Harvey Trumble’s parents host a family of Vietnamese refugees, Harvey figures he’ll show the new kid the ropes. Tuan thinks hot dogs are really made from dogs, and when Harvey demonstrates his hair dryer, Tuan thinks it’s a real gun that Harvey has.
F Hen	Hentoff, Nat. This School Is Driving Me Crazy. Sam, a very funny sixth grader, does the most maddening things at school and at home, but proves he is honest and trustworthy as well.
F Kel	Keller, Beverly. Desdemona Moves On. Chronicles the comic mishaps of twelve-year-old Desdemona and her family after they move into a luxurious new house.
F Ker	Kerr, M. E. Little Little. Little Little La Belle, a dwarf, is an heiress soon to turn eighteen. Her parents plan a birthday bash, inviting nearly all the TADS (The American Diminutives), scheming to marry her off to their ace-in-the-hole.
F Kid	Kidd, Ronald. Sammy Carducci’s Guide to Women. A four-foot-two sixth grader, the shortest boy in the class, gets pointers from his handsome older brother on handling women, and tries them out on a classmate. By the same author: Sizzle and Splat.
F Kor	Korman, Gordon. No More Dead Dogs. Eight-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school, where in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes to improve not only the play but his life as well. By the same author: The 6^th Grade Nickname Game.
F Ler	Leroe, Ellen. Meet Your Match, Cupid Delaney. Cupid Delaney is at it again. To earn her cupid wings, this irrepressible emissary from the Love bureau must pass a final test – create the most romantic prom imaginable at Woodside High.
F Low	Lowry, Lois. Your Move, J. P. J. P. Tate is suddenly walking into walls, tripping over his feet, using deodorant, and forgetting all about chess. Could he be in love with Angela, the new girl with the terrific British accent? J. P. invents a scheme that gets Angela’s full attention.
F Lub	Lubar, David. Hidden Talents. Thirteen-year-old Martin, a new student at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself. By the same author: Dunk.
F Man	Manes, Stephen. Comedy High. When Ivan Zellner and his father move to Carmody, Nevada, which calls itself “The Future Entertainment Capital of the World”, Ivan feels like he has been dropped onto an alien planet. The new high school is a remodeled hotel.
F McK	McKenna, Colleen O. Mother Murphy. This is an hilarious account of a “typical” day at the Murphy House when big sister, Collette, volunteers to be “mom” for a day for her three siblings because her pregnant mom has been ordered to bed by her doctor.
F Mye	Myers, Walter Dean. Mom, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights. After T. J. and his younger brother are adopted, the biggest problems they face are winning an international baseball tournament, held in their New Jersey hometown, and helping a homeless teammate.
F Nay	Naylor, Alice. Reluctantly Alice. Alice is hoping to make seventh grade the year everybody likes her. Meanwhile, the normal uproar continues in her motherless three-person family. This book is pure entertainment grounded in good sense and family values. By the same author: The Boys Start the War.
F Pec	Peck, Richard. The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts. In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell’s dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room school house after mean old Myrt Arbuckle “hauls off and dies.” By the same author: The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp.
F Pin	Pinkwater, Jill. Buffalo Brenda. Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna, organize an underground newspaper and then provide a life buffalo as a mascot for the football team.
R Ren	Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. By the same author: Knocked Off By My Nungas Nungas:  Further Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
F Sac	Sachar, Louis. There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom. An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who s a sort of misfit too. By the same author: Wayside School is Falling Down, Holes.
F Sni	Snicket, Lemony. The Bad Beginning. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use whatever means necessary to get their fortune.  First in the Series of Unfortunate Events series.
F Spi	Spinelli, Jerry. Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? The sibling rivalry between twelve-year-old Megin and her older brother Greg intensifies after she ruins his science project and he retaliates by throwing her favorite hockey stick into the pond.
F War	Wardlaw, Lee. Seventh-Grade Weirdo. It doesn’t take much to be a seventh-grade weirdo when your name is Christopher Robin and you’re the older brother of a genius name Winnie. By the same author: 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents.
F Wit	Wittman, Sally. Stepbrother Sabotage. Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake, until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front.

Last updated 09/29/08