Make me Laugh
Looking for some books to make you laugh, make you cry, or make you laugh then cry and then laugh again?
Look no further than this compilation done by a Smoky Hill teen book club group.
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A certain slant of light
by Laura Whitcomb
In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.
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All the broken pieces
by Ann E Burg
BookPage Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
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Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging
by Louise Rennison.
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. First in the series.
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Antsy does time
by Neal Shusterman
Fueled by friendship and sympathy, Antsy Bonano, the narrator of the award-winning The Schwa Was Here, signs a month of his life over to his dying classmate Gunnar Umlaut. But does Gunnar really have six months to live, or has news of his imminent death been greatly exaggerated?
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Carter Finally Gets It
by Brent Crawford
In this laugh-out-loud novel about getting through high school, getting the girl, and getting it together, readers join Will Carter as he enters his freshman year in high school.
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Day of tears
by Julius Lester
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
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Disenchanted Princess
by Julie Linker
When powerful Hollywood agent Jean-Claude Deschanel goes to prison for embezzlement, his teenage daughter West is sent to a small town in Arkansas to live with relatives she's never even met.
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Does My Head Look Big in This?
by Randa Abdel-fattah
Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else. Can she handle the taunts of "nappy head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attract the cutest boy in school?
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Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
"It was really good and intriguing!!!"
After Liz is hit by a truck and killed, she travels to a place called Elsewhere. Elsewhere is like Earth in some ways, but very different in others. It takes Liz a long time to adjust to her new "life" in Elsewhere. She misses her family and friends. She regrets that since she died at age 15, she will miss so many life experiences. Over time, Liz develops new relationships and has new experiences in Elsewhere.
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Ghostgirl
by Tonya Hurley
Charlotte loves Damen, who is dating the evil yet popular cheerleader Petula, whose gother-than-goth sister Scarlett has caught Damen’s attention while she was possessed with Charlotte’s spirit…(did I forget to mention that Charlotte is dead?) Confused? You won’t be as you read about the weirdest love triangle from the perspective of a girl who is more popular dead than alive.
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Harris and me
by Gary Paulsen
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
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If I stay
by Gayle Forman
One moment, Mia is laughing with her mother as they, and her dad and brother are driving down the highway. The next moment, she is in a coma yet somehow able to see that her family is dead and that she is in the hospital, hovering between life and death. Can her best friend, Kim, and her boyfriend, Adam, whose voices mix in her head with vivid flashbacks, convince her to try to go on living?
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Impossible
by Nancy Werlin
Inspired by the ballad Scarborough Fair, popularized by Simon & Garfunkel, this riveting novel combines suspense, fantasy, and romance. It tells the story of a teenage girl who has nine months to break an ancient curse in order to save both herself and her unborn daughter.
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It's kind of a funny story
by Ned Vizzini
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
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King of the screwups
by KL Going
Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most. A Printz Honor author delivers a funny story about fathers, fashion, and faux pas.
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Mates, dates, and inflatable bras
by Cathy Hopkins
Everything around 14-year-old Lucy Loverling is changing, and she wonders when her own life will improve. The day Lucy sees the most wonderful boy, things do begin to change.
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Once Upon a Time in the North
by Philip Pullman
Featuring the illustrations of John Lawrence and a removable board game inside the back cover, this exquisite prequel to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy offers a glimpse into the friendship of two of the trilogy's most beloved characters--Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.
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Saving Juliet
by Suzanne Selfors
Attention all drama queens: If you like your Shakespeare with a bit of broadway and teen sass you'll love reading this time travel rendering of the famous ill-fated lovers. Teen chic-lit alert!
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Son of the mob
by Gordon Korman
Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy--except that his father is the head of a powerful crime organization. When Vince meets a girl, her family turns out to be the biggest problem of all--because her father is an FBI agent.
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Spanking Shakespeare
by Jake Wizner
Shakespeare Shapiro has always hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger brother is cooler than he is, and his best friend's favorite topic of conversation is his bowel movements.
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Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth.
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Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. The sequel is Love, Stargirl.
gl said: Stargirl is a thrilling and fun-filled book, and I recommend it to middle schoolers and above. It would be okay for advanced readers in lower grades too.
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Read this article about Sherman Alexie. Cool quote: "If a 15-year-old doesn't want to read me, what good am I?"
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The adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . .
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The great wide sea
by M H Herlong
"Once upon a time three boys were lost at sea. One almost drowned. One almost went crazy. One fell off a cliff." Ben’s father had an idea that spending a year living on a sailboat with his three sons would help them come to terms with the loss of his wife, their mother. But on a stormy night in the middle of the ocean everything that can go wrong does.
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The perks of being a wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
15-year-old Charlie writes a series of letters to an unnamed friend, disclosing his loneliness after his best friend commits suicide. All by himself, the high school freshman is befriended by an eclectic group of high school seniors who lead him into their fun, spontaneous, and hard partying lifestyle. Charlie’s life with his new friends is going well until a secret from his childhood comes back to haunt him.
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The rules of survival
by Nancy Werlin
In this thought-provoking exploration of self-reliance and the nature of evil, a 17 year old boy sees that he needs to take action to save his family from his unpredictable mother.
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The sky inside
by Clare B Dunkle
Martin lives in a "perfect world" under the protective dome of suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. And it's all about to come crashing down because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin's sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where they have gone. Martin has a choice either to remain in the dubious safety of HM1, or to break out of the suburb into the mysterious land outside.
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Thirteen reasons why
by Jay Asher
This uncommonly polished debut opens on a riveting scenario: 13 teenagers in a small town have each been designated to listen, in secret, to a box of audiotapes recorded by their classmate Hannah and mailed on the very day she commits suicide. I'm about to tell you the story of my life, she says. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.
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Trouble
by Gary D Schmidt
“Build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” So says Henry’s father, but trouble does find Henry’s family. Gary Schmidt presents us with two very different families torn by tragedy and secrets. As Henry and his sarcastic pal (“If you’re going to name a dog, shouldn’t be something more imaginative than Black Dog?”) move to fulfill a dying brother’s wish, they are caught in the mysterious web of an enemy who just may be a friend. An excellent mature read for teen guys.
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Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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