Monday, February 6, 2017

Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh

It seems to me that teen books are once more trending more towards realistic fiction.  This means that the books are turning more serious.  However, sometimes you just want to have a little humor in your stories.  So here are my favorite funny books for teens . . . .

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

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

There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.

Vampire High by Douglas Rees
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.


More Funny Teen Books --
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Boys Don't Knit (in Public) by Tom Easton
Dark Lord, the Early Years by Jamie Thomson
Freshman: A Novel by Michael Gerber
Ghost Town by Richard Jennings
Hellhole by Gina Damico
Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn by Sarah Miller
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Mothership by Martin Leicht
My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Soul Enchilada by David Macinnes Gill
The Prom Goer's Interstellar Excursion by Chris McCoy
Trouble in Me by Jack Gantos


 Check these books out at the Arnold Branch.

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