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| Here's where to find our list of recommended books when you need a good laugh. If you would like to help make new lists or add on to an existing list call Heather @ 262-0626 or email at haronson@biblio.org. |
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| Adams, Douglas |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 1979 |
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Just before the Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect.
Sequels include The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, The Universe, and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe, Mostly Harmless, and The Salmon of Doubt |
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| Alexie, Sherman |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a a Part-Time Indian. 2007 |
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. |
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| Doyle, Larry |
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I Love You, Beth Cooper. 2007 |
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Recklessly announcing his love for the head cheerleader during his valedictorian commencement speech, Denis Cooverman is inducted into the wilder side of youth culture by the object of his affection, who turns out to be more than he bargained for. |
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First Kiss, Then Tell. 2008 |
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Twenty-five best-selling young adult authors share stories about their first kiss. Includes quotations, facts, advice, and illustrations. |
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| Friesner, Esther |
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Temping Fate. 2006 |
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Until she stumbled upon the Divine Relief Temp Agency, Ilana Newhouse was having trouble finding a summer job. But when she reports for her day as a temp Ilana discovers she's temping for the Greek mythological goddesses, the Fates. |
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| Goldschmidt, Judy |
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The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez. 2005 |
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In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.
Sequels include Raisin Rodriguez and the Big-Time Smooch |
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| Green, John |
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An Abundance of Katherines. 2006 |
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships. |
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| Jones, Diane Wynne |
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Howl's Moving Castle. 1986 |
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Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Sequels include Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways. |
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| Juby, Susan |
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Alice, I Think. 2003 |
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Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
Sequels include Miss Smithers, and Alice Macleod, Realist at Last |
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| Juby, Susan |
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Getting the Girl. 2008 |
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Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the "Defilers," a secret group at his British Columbia high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on, but later as a matter of principle. |
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| Korman, Gordon |
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Born to Rock. 2006 |
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High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend. |
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| Limb, Sue |
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Girl, 15, Charming but Insane 2004 |
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Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.
Includes prequels and sequels Girl, Barely 15, Flirting for England, Girl, (Nearly) 16, Absolute Torture, and Girl, Going on 17, Pants of Fire. |
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| Linker, Julie |
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Disenchanted Princess. 2007 |
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When powerful Hollywood agent Jean-Claude Deschanel goes to prison for embezzlement, his teenage daughter West is sent to a small town in Arkansas to live with relatives she's never even met. |
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| Lubar, David |
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie. 2005 |
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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 as he hones his skills as a writer. |
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| Lyga, Barry |
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. 2006 |
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A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. |
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| Mlynowski, Sarah |
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Bras & Broomsticks. 2005 |
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Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.
Sequels include Frogs & French Kisses, Spells & Sleeping Bags and Parties & Potions |
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| Portman, Frank |
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King Dork. 2006 |
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High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life. |
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| Pratchett, Terry |
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The Color of Magic. 1983 |
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Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea.
Sequels include The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Faust Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Thief of Time, The Last Hero, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Night Watch, The Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, A Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal, Thud!, Wintersmith, and Making Money |
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| Rennison, Louise |
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Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging 2000 |
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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.
Sequels include On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas, Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel, Then He Ate my Boy Entrancers, Startled by His Furry Shorts, and Love is a Many Trousered Thing |
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| Swanson, Julie A. |
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Going for the Record. 2004 |
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Seventeen-year-old Leah's chance to make the national soccer team does not seem so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live. |
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