Humor

24 Girls in 7 Days
by Bradley, Alex
Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack's so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn't hurt. After all, there's not much in this world sadder than Jack's love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom.

A Field Guide to High School
by Walsh, Melissa
Andie and her best friend read through a manual Andie's Yale-bound sister wrote for her, which is filled with tips and tricks for excelling at Plumstead Country Day High School where Andie is about to be a freshman.

Acceptance: A Novel
by Coll, Susan
Touring colleges during spring break of his junior year of high school, "AP" Harry and his mother step in to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast, where he runs into two of his classmates from an elite public school in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in a hilarious chronicle of a year in the life of the college admissions scramble.

Born to Rock
by Korman, Gordon
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles
by Durrant, Sabine
Writing in her diary, fourteen-year-old Connie Pickles records her determination to find a husband for her mother while wading into the waters of friendship, love and money.

Does My Head Look Big in This?
by Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Year eleven at an exclusive prep school in Melbourne, Australia would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.

Flora Segunda : Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (one blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog
by Wilce, Ysabean S.
Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and long-banished--butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants Series, 4)
by Brashares, Ann
As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things qabout themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.

How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
by Elkeles, Simone
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Isreal for a summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
by Choldenko, Gennifer
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering long kept secrets about themselves.

Just Ella
by Haddix, Margaret Peterson
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

Love is a Many Trousered Thing
by Rennison, Louise
In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed towards a decision about the three boys in her life.

Lulu Dark can see through Walls
by Madison, Bennett
When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates.

Ruby Parker Hits the Small Time
by Coleman, Rowan
Thirteen-year-old Ruby feels her life is over when she learns that her parents are splitting up at the same time she hears rumors that she will be fired soon from the television soap opera she has worked on since age six.

Shelf Life
by Corbet, Robert
An assortment of teens working in a supermarket cope with health and family problems, future hopes and dreams, the complications of on-the-job romances, and the challenges of customer service.

Sleeping Freshman Never Lie
by Lubar, David
While navigating his first year of high school and waiting for 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.

Son of the Mob
by Korman, Gordon
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.

Stuff: The Life of a Cool Demented Dude
by Strong, Jeremy
Fourteen-year-old Simon, known as Stuff, struggles with his new stepfamily, tries to avoid a giant attack rabbit, hopes to break up with his girlfriend and connect with a new one, and creates cartoons of "Punykid's battle with drooling dorkoids."

The Gospel According to Larry
by Tashjian, Janet
Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a website that is receiving national attention.

Queen of Second Place
by Roberts, Laura Peyton
Smitten with a new boy at school, California high school student Cassie Howard spends much of her months trying desperately to win him over before she gains some perspective.