(Part 2) Best teen funny fiction books according to redditors
We found 192 Reddit comments discussing the best teen funny fiction books. We ranked the 38 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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The following are some of my favorite books that I could think of off the top of my head. Hopefully you dig the list.
Could it have been Burger Wuss?
Is it Stella Street? Protag's name is 'Henni' IIRC.
My dad got me into sci fi.
I remember reading some of the Heinlein juveniles like The Star Beast
I also vividly remember a book called The Day of the Ness
when I was 6 or 7 and it blew me away. Then it was Rendezvous with Rama that really sent me on my way.
Paul Jennings' Funniest Stories has a chicken on the front and has the ice cream story in it, though it isn't yellow.
You could make a donation towards a charitable organization- maybe one that would send her a card or something every once in a while in the mail so that she could be reminded of how nice it is to help other people? My aunt bought me "membership" in the Jane Goodall Foundation when I was 8 or 9 (I really really loved Jane Goodall) and it was a fantastic gift.
You could also get her a couple of books that go along with the theme of traveling/helping others.
-Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwall
-North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
All of the above books feature protagonists her age that go abroad and broaden their horizons.
You could also go the nonfiction route with this or this.
Or you could get her a photography book- sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, you could get her a book of photos from around the world. This National Geographic book looks sweet. This one also looks powerful.
Lastly, maybe think about going to your favorite charity's website. Most sites have a "shop to benefit" section or something similar where they sell gifts where all proceeds go to help the charity.
Americares: http://www.americares.org/howtohelp/individuals/shop-and-give-back.html
UNICEF (lots of resources here!): http://www.unicefusa.org/shop/
The FEED Foundation: http://www.feedprojects.com/
Invisible Children (SUCH an important cause): http://store.invisiblechildren.com/
Good luck, hope I helped!
just in case they are girls
Angela and Diabola
Hellbent
http://www.amazon.com/Hellbent-Anthony-McGowan/dp/1416908145
While they're more historical fiction, I absolutely adored the Myth-o-Mania! series by Kate Mcmullan when I was a kid. I credit them with facilitating my interest in antiquity and Greece in particular. For a young reader they are written with enough humor to keep them interested and entertained while also providing an enough baseline information on greek mythology to still be educational.
On a second note, I took a children's literature class in college and decided to my make my final project a lesson plan to make history more interesting for child readers. In many ways I was piggy backing off Dan's approach to tell the 'interesting' side of history.
Inspired by the book Mau5 which I loved reading in high school, I tried to find a chronology of history using graphic novels. I think graphic novels are an interesting way to get children interested in reading, especially when they are so young.
Here is the list of graphic novels. Maybe you will find one interesting. If you want, I can PM you the whole project with my summaries of the books.
Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra- Haggard, H. Rider, Alfred Sundel, and Norman Nodel
Dark Ages
*The Dark Ages and the Vikings-Jeffrey, Gary, and Nik Spender.
Crusades
Crusades-Jeffrey, Gary, and Terry Riley.
Civil War
Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's Most Famous Battle and Turning Point of the Civil War. Vansant, Wanye
Congo Civil War (Child Soldiers)
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War - Humphreys, Jessica Dee, Michel Chikwanine, and Claudia Dávila.
World War 1
True Stories of World War 1 - Nelson Yomtov and John Proctor
Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography - Helfer, Andrew and Randy Duburke
The Holocaust*
Maus: A Survivor's Tale* - Spiegelman, Art
Just want to put this out there because I've studied young adult lit and I'll never grow too old to love it: YA is an incredibly fascinating genre. It's an absolute goldmine if you're looking for character development. Even the books with horrible photoshop-vomit covers often have merit if you give them a chance, and the fact that something appeals to teenage girls does not invalidate its quality.
If anyone is interested in reading good young adult fiction, I'd recommend the following:
I read this book to my kids for bedtime last spring, and I read Farely Mowat's classic when I was young myself. We used to have Great Horned Owls hanging out in a tree next to our house at sunset and we'd call back and forth.
If an owl is raised by a rescue group with puppets, it won't become imprinted on humans and if it recovers full wing function, it can be released back into the wild.
I'm assuming since you've had it for a while that the injuries were too much to recover from? You may have that pet for a long while.
Ohh, hey thats what my sister is(does). I believe she just started working more with "mentally challenged"(sorry for the words I have chosen) children.
R.L. Stine! Jeez I've just about everything from him, have not read his newer stuff. These were my favorite. That takes me back.
Glad to hear your son loves the idea of school, are you going to get him involved, or if he wants, in music? Like playing an instrument or a sport?
Hope all goes well and everything gets beter, it is a pleasure to meet you.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks! Just finished reading it with a book club that I run for teen girls. It's one of my favorites, they loved it, it's full of standing up for yourself and discovering who you are and making good decisions and making bad decisions and friendship and awesomeness. Can't recommend it enough.
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Kind-Funny-Story-Novel/dp/0786851961
It's definitely relevant and may provide you with some comfort. Funny story about it's kind of a funny story, it was my favorite book like 4 years ago and last year I was travelling in Peru in this little town called Urubamba and at the hostel we stayed at behind the desk there was a copy! I read it again and it was just as wonderful.
Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks