HIT: Humorous Books for 8th graders Pt.1

[Janice Ziglin <janicez@EXECPC.COM>]

Thanks to all of you who sent me lots of ideas for humorous books.  I'm=20
sending the first part today and will send the next part in a day or two.=
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Note that you may want to read some of the books first.  Comments are=20
included.  This looks like we'll have enough ideas to do the unit the=20
teacher wants to do.  Thanks again.

Jan Ziglin
Library Media Specialist
Elmbrook Middle School
Elm Grove, WI
janicez@execpc.com




Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker=B9s Guide to the Galaxy
Bauer, Joan - Squashed
                                                                                    
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Coville, Bruce - Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Cushman, Karen -Catherine called Birdy=20
Danziger, Paula - This Place Has no Atmosphere
                                                Cat Ate My Gymsuit
                                                Pistachio Prescription
Fleischman, Paul -      A Fate Totally Worsed Than Death ( spoof on R.L.Stine =
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books)
Kerr, M.E. - HIM She Loves?
Kindl, Patrice - Owl in Love
Koertege, Ron - The Arizona Kid
          Gay uncle, and the protangonist has sex for the first time, so you may=
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want to         read it first, but very funny and well done.=20
Korman, Gordon - Losing Joe=B9s Apartment
                        Don=B9t Care High
Myers, Walter Dean - Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
        It is hilarious.  Great for reading aloud also.  Warning:  One very =09
funny
        chapter concerns a "rubber,"=20
Murphy - Ace Hits the Big Time
Paulsen, Gary - Harris and Me
        Please read it yourself first though. It has some typical
        crude 'boy' pranks--like urinating on an electic fence, although the
        painful body part is always referred to as "my business"; and looking at
        naed lady's pictures. I've actually had as many parents read and enjoy i=
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        as students.
Plummer, Louise(?) -The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
Rawls - Summer of the Monkeys
Sachar - anything
Spinelli, Jerry - Who Put That Hair on My Toothbrush
                   Jason and Marcelline
Strasser - The Complete Computer Popularity Program (or something like th=
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- Strasser - Workin' for Peanuts=20
Zindel, Paul  - The Undertakers Gone Bananas
                The Pigman and Me