Book Lists: Humor

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.

When timid Milton and his older, scofflaw sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.

While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.

Twelve-year-old Tad has a plan to make seventh grade his most awesome year, but he must overcome a devious little sister, an embarrassing summer job, a science fair project gone awry, and other obstacles.

Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

Under twelve-year-old Todd Butroche's bed, a stinky sock has spawned a miniature civilization, the Toddlians, who see Todd as their god. Todd isn't really interested in being their protector until the school bully, Max, puts the Toddlians in danger; then Todd races to save them from extinction.

Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.

Taking a new twist on the vampire novel rage, this atypical novel paints the picture of a group of vampires who are banded together in a support group, run by a Catholic priest, pledged to reform them from the perils of their vampire addiction. They are determined to rid the world of the evils of vampires, but it is a long hard struggle. They survive on harvested guinea pig blood and refuse to be responsible for the creation of another vampire. Their daily life is a continuing, boring commitment. But all that changes when a member of their group is killed with a silver bullet. Nina, David and Father Ramon set out on a dangerous quest to find the vampire killer before he strikes again and along the way rescue a werewolf, encounter an evil father-son vampire slayer team, and realize the being a vampire might just have some redemptive qualities after all. When Nina and David find love, the plot gets even better and readers will not be disappointed in this twisted adventure. School Library Journal says this book “is truly like no other vampire story. It is witty, cunning, and humorous, with numerous plot twists and turns.”

Eleven-year-old Max Carmody feels he has met his destiny when he sees an announcement for "The Funniest Kid in America" contest, but his quest to create a video that will get him into the running turns into a comedy of errors.

When Clark Sherman transfers to Festus Middle School in the midst of his eighth grade year, he feels as if he's crash landed on a hostile planet where bullies and unfriendly adults seem to surround him. Clark keeps notes about his "mission" in a captain's log-styled journal. When Clark finally makes a couple of misfit friends, they soon find themselves searching for the truth about their principal who seems to be in cahoots with the bullies of the school.

Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

When Max is sent to a family camp, he takes the opportunity to reinvent himself and dons the persona of Mad Max, a reckless individual who quickly gains popularity and notoriety. But can he keep up this facade, or will his true nature begin to slip through?

Fifth-grader Frederick finds himself in a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.

Presents a collection of fourteen humorous short stories featuring wizards, dragons, and young heroes.

Contains three stories in which brothers and best friends Wilbur and Orville Riot catch a thief, overthrow a king, and find a treasure, and includes rules to some of their made-up games.

His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

When a monster apocalypse strikes, thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan holes up in a tree house fortified with catapults and a moat. Jack's team of survivors including his best friend, the school bully, his crush, and his pet monster, must fight off Winged Wretches, Vine Thingies, and "zombified" neighbors in order to survive and defeat the monster known as Blarg.

Nigel Mullet, a 100-year-old vampire doomed to spend eternity in the body of a socially awkward fifteen-year-old boy, records his attempts to impress the love of his life, Chloe, while battling an embarrassingly overwhelming desire to sink his fangs into her.

Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.

After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.

An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as small, skinny seventh-grader Sam's former best friend--now a popular athlete--promises to beat Sam up at recess in exactly thirty-three minutes.

When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.

In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.

Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.

When supremely organized seventh-grader, Molly McGinty, loses the notebook she relies on to keep her life in order she spends the day in chaos.

Seventh-grade playwright Olive Henry and her best friend Reynaldo plan to kidnap their school's mascot, Cappy the capybara, and return it in time for the school's pep rally in order to get permission for their drama club to practice in the auditorium. But when an animal rights activist and an undercover athlete join in the conspiracy, their plans spiral out of control.

A young girl named Holly Farb is kidnapped by space pirates, who are convinced that she is princess of the galaxy. Along with her teacher Mr. Mendez and a boy named Chester, Holly tries to get home, meeting strange and unusual characters along the way.

Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.

An anthology of ten humorous short stories about life in school, written by well-known authors of children's books.

Thirteen-year-old superhero sidekick-in-training Drew "The Sensationalist" Bean must overcome his not-so-superpowers and become the hero everyone needs when a supervillain, The Dealer, returns to Justicia.

Conor O'Neill faces his cowardice and visits the underworld to bargain with the Lady who can prevent the imminent death of a family member, but first Ashling, the banshee who brought the news, wants to visit his middle school.

Sophomore Samantha Madison stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed teen ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

The Brain, who considers himself the world's greatest detective, enlists reluctant helper Sheldon McGlone to investigate recent strange events. The answers involve surfing rivals, a weird homeroom teacher, a toothpaste company, and a severed human leg.

After Ulysses the squirrel is sucked up by her neighbor's brand new vacuum cleaner, Flora and he set out to become superheroes.

When Scott "Bright Boy" Hutchinson, an ordinary school kid and sidekick to Phantom Justice, encounters his nemesis, Monkeywrench, at school and uncovers secrets about Phantom Justice, Scott must figure out who he really is.

During the summer before high school, Jessie Elliot vows to never change her fun-filled, dorky ways--that is until her best friend starts hanging out with the cool kids.

After being expelled from her elite private school, spoiled, arrogant rich girl Astrid is forced to attend her local private school. Intelligent and proud of it, Astrid believes she will have the school in the palm of her hand but soon learns important lesson about herself and her place in the world as she discovers the reality of the public school system.

Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.

When middle school student BJ Levine finds a strange notebook with instructions on how to be a "rock god," he embarks on a quest to become famous but finds the journey filled with danger and mystery.

What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.

Norman, Anna, Emma, and Leonard try to find out why adults think and act in such strange ways, and with the help of Norman's new tutor, Balthazar Birdsong, they almost figure it out.

In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude.

Sven Carter thought his biggest worry was being nicknamed Trashmouth after being caught eating a moldy muffin by his classmates. But when his arm falls off and magically reattaches itself to his body, he discovers that he's actually a humanoid that was designed to destroy the human race. The only problem is, he doesn't want to. And now he and his human friends will have to band together to stop a plot that would have Sven aiding in the annihilation of humanity.

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.

Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas, a science-loving bully magnet, clones himself, only to discover that his double is infinitely cooler than himself.

Two smart girls in one small town use their combined genius to liven up their world--one prank at a time.

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

Based on an experience in the author's life, the story describes how fourteen-year-old Jack falls under the spell of a delinquent Florida neighbor and gets way more trouble than he bargained for in the process.

Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.

Vincent Wu's superpower is knowing the most trivia about superheroes out of anyone else in his school. He is also the leader, along with his friends Max and George, of the unofficial Captain Stupendous Fan Club. So, when Captain Stupendous, the evil Professor Mayhem, a giant indestructible robot, Vincent's parents, and Polly Winnicott-Lee--the girl Vincent has a crush on--all collide together in a big mess, it will be up to Vincent to become a real superhero and save the day.

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

When Jo Jo and Magic Pickle face off against a bad legume during a class field trip to a peanut factory, it is not the fearless, dill superhero nor his video game that save the day but Jo Jo's ingenuity.

Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter.

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 schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

When Gordon Liddy Community School's resident tattletale-detective, Chrissie Woodward, realizes that the adults are out to fix the big spelling bee, she transfers her loyalty to her fellow students and starts collecting evidence. Told through in-class letters, administrative memos, file notes from Chrissie's investigation, and testimony from spelling bee contestants.

Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call 'gifted.' But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he's landed in the perfect place to do it-Donovan's school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock Hash 'Hashtag' Taggart. Sticking up for Noah lands Donovan in the middle of a huge feud with Hashtag. He's told to stay away from the sports star-or else. That should be the end of it, but when a freak incident suddenly makes Donovan a hero, he can't tell anyone about it since Hashtag is involved. So Noah steps in and becomes 'Superkid.'