Teens - Humorous

My Cup Runneth Over:  The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts

by Cherry Whytock

Angelica Cookson Potts, better known as
Angel, loves food, both cooking it and eating it, and plans to be a
famous chef someday. But she thinks she's just too big -- her mother is
a skinny ex-model, her best friends are all smaller than she is, and
she feels like a huge, wobbly whale in comparison. In addition to food,
Angel also loves Jamie Oliver (the Naked Chef) and Adam (who doesn't
know she's alive). In order to get Adam's attention, she tries making
major Life Changes, including a cabbage-only diet that has...well,
explosive results. Through it all her best friends, Minnie, Portia, and
Mercedes, are there with her, and when the school fashion show comes
around, Angel discovers that her size might not be such a bad thing
after all. Everyone knows an Angel, and readers will laugh out loud at
her take on life. Angel's own recipes are included so that other
"foodies" can cook along with her.

Surviving the Applewhites

by Stephanie S. Tolan

Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is
sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's
Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never
knew he had. (Newbery Honor 2003)

Oddballs

by William Sleator

A collection of stories based on
experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual
assortment of family and friends.

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

by Louise Rennison

This humorous journal depicts 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,
and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

A Long Way from Chicago:  A Novel in Stories

by Richard Peck

Seven annual summer visits to Grandma
Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town make seven short stories or one
entertaining novel. (Newbery Honor 1999)

Harris and Me

by Gary Paulsen

Sent to live with relatives on their farm
because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his
distant cousin, Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new
world.

Slot Machine

by Chris Lynch

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.

Extreme Elvin

by Chris Lynch

Now in his first year in high school, the
pudgy hero has one misadventure after the next. The hormonal hi-jinks
help dress up the book's somewhat old-fashioned theme of whether or not
he should date the plump girl he's attracted to.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

by David Lubar

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. His chronicle of the freshman
year is both laugh-aloud funny and touchingly wise.

No More Dead Dogs

by Gordon Korman

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace
must spend detention watching rehearsals of the school play where, in
spite of himself, he becomes involved in the production and makes
suggestions for improvement to the play, and to his own life.