Middle Grade: Funny Books | Santa Barbara Public Library

1) Alvin Ho: allergic to girls, school, and other scary things

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A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.

2) From the notebooks of a middle school princess

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Cabot, Meg

Series

From the notebooks of a middle school princess volume 1

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"A middle-grade spinoff of The Princess Diaries, about the long-lost sister of Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia"--

3) EllRay Jakes the recess king!

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Warner, Sally

Series

EllRay Jakes series volume 8

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Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.

4) The first rule of punk

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Pérez, Celia C

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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

5) Stanford Wong flunks big-time

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Yee, Lisa

Series

Millicent Min series volume 2

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After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.

6) Merci Suárez changes gears

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Medina, Meg

Series

Merci Suarez volume 1

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Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy

7) Lions & liars

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Beasley, Kate

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Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.

8) brilliant world of tom gates

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9) Timmy Failure: now look what you've done

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Pastis, Stephan

Series

Timmy Failure volume 2

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Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.

10) jinx of the loser

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11) It ain't so awful, falafel

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Dumas, Firoozeh

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"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--

12) Middle school, the worst years of my life

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Patterson, James

Series

Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1

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When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

13) The Tapper twins go to war (with each other)

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Rodkey, Geoff

Series

Tapper twins volume 1

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An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.

14) Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom

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Vivat, Booki

Series

Frazzled volume 1

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An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade graphic novel series about a girl who is always in a tizzy. Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut. Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is in crisis-and not just because she's starting middle school or because she's stuck in a family that doesn't quite get her or because everyone seems to...

15) Dead end in Norvelt

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Gantos, Jack

Series

Norvelt books volume 1

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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.