"A Funny Thing Happened to Me..."

Clever comedy, frantic farce, and sarcastic satire.

• 48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls--When Dan has to decide between moving with his parents to Geneva or staying with his cool, twenty-something sister in Australia to finish school, it's not a difficult decision.
• The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez by Judy Goldschmidt--Raisin discovers that maybe it wasn't a good idea to keep a secret blog about her new school for her friends back home, detailing her successes and more frequent humiliating failures!
• The Cannibals by Cynthia Grant--Tiffany finds very little humor in her descent from popular to social outcast during her senior year in high school.

• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green-- After being dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Kathering, Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life.
• Alice, I Think by Susan Juby-- Alice desperately hopes that everyone has erased the image of her first day of kindergarten dressed as a hobbit as she enters high school after years of homeschooling. Sequel is Miss Smithers.
• Born to Rock by Gordon Korman-- Leo's career path through theYoung Republicans and Harvard will take a turn for the weird when he discovers his father is a famous punk rocker.
• Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb-- When will Jess learn to keep her thoughts to herself and sty out of trouble.
• 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 as he hones his skills as a writer.
• Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez-- Loretta's diner is attacked by zombies, but they're no match for Earl and Duke, a vampire and a werewolf. Enter Tammy, Queen of the Night.
• The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty-- When three girls are assigned three boys as pen pals from a rival school, it's not long before misunderstandings lead to subpoenas and even all out war between the two schools.
• All's Fair in Love, War, and High School by Janette Rallison—Hoping to pad her college resume after horrible S.A.T. scores, Samantha runs for student body president with little hope of winning since her cutting sense of humor doesn't make for many friends.
• Vampire High by Douglas Rees-- Cody should have known that nothing would be normal in his new high school with a name like Vlad Dracul Magnet School.
• Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw-- Using his amazing cooking skills, Cyril helps his best friend Nick flirt with his crush, Rose, even though Cyril likes rose too.

• Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon--In an attempt to avoid becoming a superficial adult like her parents, Janet decides to enter the "Dark Phase" of her life and become more serious through meaningful pursuits.
• Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini-- Jeremy knows the power of cool. Because he doesn't have it, he swallows a tiny supercomputer that instructs him on how to get the girl of his dreams.
• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen-- In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

• Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson-- Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
• 24 Girls in 7 days by Alex Bradley-- After Jack Grammar's friends, Percy and Natalie, post a personal ad in the school newspaper for him; Jack ends up with only seven days to date all the responses before asking one special girl to the prom.
• Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman-- Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. (Sequel is Son of the mob: Hollywood Hustle)
• Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Kissing an Ashtray? by Randy Powell-- An eighteen-year-old pinball addict and a smart-mouthed girl who don't quite fit in with anyone else develop a special relationship.

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