Searching for some light-hearted summer reading at your local library or independent bookstore?
Take along this BooksYALove list of favorite funny books, and cool off with a good laugh! Click any title to see my full recommendation of the book. Review copies and cover images courtesy of their respective publishers.
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Classic baseball comedy routine teammates are just wild in Who’s On First? by Abbott & Costello.
Pantalones, TX: Don’t Chicken Out! – can Chico Bustamante stay ahead of the chicken-shack-driving sheriff and conquer the giant bucking chicken?
Enjoy Hakata Soy’s first middle school term in space as he enrolls in Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity – time for dinosaur riding lessons and fireball tournaments!
Then return to Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry for another semester of fireball tournaments and missing extra hearts – and mystery to solve.
More Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy) as he teams up with John Green (the artist one) to create TeenBoat! Imagine “the angst of being a teen, the thrill of being a boat!” – yes, it’s that funny.
When music-loving aliens realize they’re violating Earth copyright laws and have run up a bill bigger than the universe, things get a bit out of hand in Year Zero.
An orbiting maternity home for unwed mothers is attacked by aliens (really cute aliens!) and things aboard the Mothership get all kinds of crazy.
Set Shakespeare’s comedy The Tempest in a modern shopping mall during a blizzard, add some memorable characters and a robbery, and you have a most Tempestuous and wacky tale.
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to create a new candy for the world’s sweetest contest? But The Candymakers must solve a mystery before everything goes sour.
As a teen spy goes undercover in a ritzy private school to keep the organization’s cover from being blown, she doesn’t anticipate love among the complications in Also Known As.
Yes, you can enter the lottery at 16 in Great Britain, but Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery is more of a how-not-to than a financial guide!
Being able to hear cats talk seems like such a boring talent until Nat uses it to capture a kidnapper and snag a movie part after all in Cat Girl’s Day Off.