Humorous
I Love you, I Hate you, Get Lost by Ellen Conford
A series of short, humorous stories addressing the good
and bad of teenage life.
Fiction TEENS for
Knocked Out by My Nunga Nungas: Further, Further
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
The continuing hilarious journal of Georgia as she travels
with her family to Scotland.
Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris
Hilarious observations of a thirteen-year-old boy as he A wealthy young man and his dancer wife, together with
deals with teen issues and worry over his parent’s marriage. their son, Sandy, fend off the evil tactics of two greedy
uncles who are determined to steal the family fortune.
The Adventures of Blue Avenger: a Novel by Norma Howe
On his birthday, a sixteen-year-old cartoon artist decides No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
to change his name to The Blue Avenger, a superhero he Football playing Wallace Wallace serves his detention by
created. With this new identity, he hopes to make a attending the school play rehearsals and soon finds that
difference in his Oakland neighborhood. he can make improvements in the play as well as his own life.
Bel Air Bambi and the Mall Rats by Richard Peck The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Three siblings move from Los Angeles to their father’s small An average 14-year-old American girl learns that her
hometown of Hickory Fork and soon take on the Mall Rats, father is Prince of Genovia and that she is really a princess
the teenage gang in town. and next in line to the throne.
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Luther is forced to help out with a variety of his mother’s Ashley just wants to get through her senior year and has
shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, while trying to no interest in the prom, but then a teacher steals all the
maintain a normal life in high school and win the science fair funds and there may not be a prom. Ashley is coerced into
prize. With the help of his best friend, Sparky, Luther plots a helping when her best friend takes charge of the big event.
plan to escape from his mother’s evil influence.
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Confessions of a Not It Girl by Melissa Kantor Sixteen-year-old Jenna goes on a long driving trip with the
During her senior year Jan Miller struggles with college elderly owner of Gladstone’s Shoe Store and finds that
applications, tries to fit in when she is a “Not It” girl, and helping Mrs. Gladstone with her problems also helps her to
searches for her first true love. solve some of her own.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
A teenage girl, in her first year at a new school, yearns for Anthony tells of the quirky antics he and his friends become
the lead in the school drama production as she finds herself involved in as they test out whether their new friend Calvin
in direct conflict with the most popular girl at the school. Schwa truly can seem to be invisible.
Confess-O-Rama by Ron Koertge Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
While helping his mother through the grief of losing her fourth Seventeen-year-old Vince, son of a Mafia boss, wants to
husband, Tony meets a quirky girl named Jordan and talks about date the daughter of an FBI agent, which leads to all sorts
his feelings to the telephone help line called Confess-O-Rama. of comic mishaps.
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Squashed by Joan Bauer
Cyd has been expelled from boarding school and must return Ellie, a sixteen year old girl, raises a huge pumpkin so it can
to live with her mother in San Francisco. After numerous win in the Rock River Weigh-in contest while trying to lose
problems, Cyd is sent off to New York City to stay with her 20 pounds herself.
biological father whom she has only met once.
24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb When Jack does not have a date for the prom, his friends
The funny adventures of Jess Jordan, a girl with a perfect post a personal ad in the school’s online newspaper leading
best friend, love interest named Ben, and enough family to an abundance of possible choices he must sort through
quibbles to make any teenage girl crazy. in one week.
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
Seventeen-year-old Joshua puts his anti-consumerism views Three Australian high school girls are assigned to be pen
on the Internet under a fake name – Larry – and receives pals to three boys from a neighboring school, leading to
more attention than he anticipated. unusual, amusing situations.
I am the Wallpaper by Mark Peter Hughes
Thirteen-year-old Floey is the younger sister of wildly
popular, Lillian, and is determined to be noticed for her own BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY
qualities, but it is unclear whether the attention she is
getting is from the posting of her diary on the Internet by Updated May 2006
her mean cousins or from the changes she is making.