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Laugh Out Loud: Funny Fiction
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Alienated
by Andrew Auseon
Santa Rosa, California, junior high school students Gene and Vince try to become famous and popular by publishing a free tabloid about real aliens, but a clash over whether to print a certain story not only damages their friendship, it lands them in the middle of an intergalactic conflict, as well
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Beauty queens
by Libba Bray
When the 50 contestants of the Miss Teen Dream Pageant crash on a desert island, the young beauty queens struggle between survival efforts and denial while hoping for rescue and encountering a band of handsome pirates. By the Printz Award-winning author of Going Bovine.
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Big mouth
by Deborah Halverson
Discovering that his biggest competition in the upcoming Nathan's World Famous hot dog eating competition is both shorter and much thinner than he, fourteen-year-old Shermie rethinks his approach to the contest and incorporates a personal trainer in his training schedule so that he, too, will be a force to be reckoned with on the big day.
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The boy recession
by Flynn Meaney
When most of the male students at Julius P. Heil High depart for other opportunities, down-to-earth Kelly Robbins finds more competition than she anticipated when pursing the heart of guitar-playing, class-skipping Hunter, whose good looks have attracted considerable attention.
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Dash & Lily's book of dares
by Rachel Cohn
In a story told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmastime in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find
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Freshman year & other unnatural disasters
by Meredith Zeitlin
Smart and ambitious, though occasionally insecure, Brooklyn 14-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do turns into a total disaster.
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Guys read : funny business
by Jon Scieszka
A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey and the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk includes works by such writers as Adam Rex, Eoin Colfer, Kate DiCamillo and David Lubar.
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I represent Sean Rosen
by Jeff Baron
In this very funny tween novel, a debut for playwright Jeff Baron, Sean Rosen pretends to be a grown-up as well as his own manager and sells a movie idea to a major motion picture studio—via Skype—all while enduring the ups and downs of life in middle school.
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Into the wild nerd yonder
by Julie Halpern
When her friends transform into punks right before her eyes and start hanging out with an entirely different clique, sophomore Jessie is left on her own to figure out where she belongs and soon embarks on a life-altering journey at school where she meets people who change her in ways she could have never imagined.
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Josie Griffin is not a vampire
by Heather Swain
After exacting revenge on her cheating ex-boyfriend, Josie Griffin finds herself in anger management therapy with a group of strange kids who talk of their "powers" and who seemingly can cause supernatural events to occur
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Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel
by Jesse Andrews
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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My awesome/awful popularity plan
by Seth Rudetsky
Resolving to become a member of the popular crowd and win the heart of the best-looking, albeit heterosexual, boy in school, gay misfit Justin agrees to help the object of his affections in a scheme involving the boy's girlfriend, with haphazard results. By the Sirius Satellite Radio Broadway host author of Broadway Nights.
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Notes from the blender
by Trish Cook
His life of death-metal music and violent video games enhanced by his obsession with the popular Neilly, Declan is astonished when his mother announces her engagement to Neilly's father, a situation that is complicated by setbacks in their social lives.
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Okay for now
by Gary D. Schmidt
While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
by Catherine Jinks
Humorous Fantasy. Forget the smolderingly gorgeous vampires of Twilight; Australian author Catherine Jinks' vampires border on being pathetic -- especially permanently 15-year-old Nina Harrison. Her boring life is a far cry from the exciting escapades of vampire Zadia Bloodstone, the heroine of the novels that Nina writes under a pen name. And the whiny other members of her nonviolent vampires' support group are starting to really grate on her nerves...until one of them is staked, and Nina must pull the group together to find and fight the slayer who threatens them all. Action-packed, hilarious, and decidedly offbeat, this fang-in-cheek adventure is a must-read for paranormal fiction fans.
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Schooled
by Gordon Korman
After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies.
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Swim the Fly
by Don Calame
In addition to the pact he made with his two best friends to see a naked girl by the end of the summer, 15-year-old Matt Gratton is even more determined to impress the star of the swim team, Kelly West, with his athletic abilities and so makes a personal goal to swim the 100-yard butterfly in order to catch her eye.
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Voss : how I come to America and am hero, mostly
by David Ives
Having come into the country in a crate of black-market cheese puffs with his father Bogdown and uncle Shpoont, Voss steps out into his new world with great hopes for a bright future in this amusing tale of a stumbling and bumbling teen who becomes an unlikely hero through his kind deeds.
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