Fiction+-+Laughs

=// New Fiction Books at Cal Young ~ 2009-2010 //=

//** Laugh Out Loud **//
FIC Abd Abdel-Fattah, Randa //**Does My Head Look Big In This?**// 2007. Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith -- without losing her identity or sense of style. //YRCA nominee 2010//

FIC Ale Alexie, Sherman 2007. 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. //MC/8th grade or parent consent National Book Award 2009; YRCA nominee 2010//
 * //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian//**

FIC Cle Clements, Andrew //**No Talking**// 2007. The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. //YRCA Nominee 2010//

FIC Pau Paulsen, Gary //**Mudshark**// 2009. Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.

FIC Rex Rex, Adam //**The True Meaning of Smekday**// 2007. In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots.

FIC Sac Sachar, Louis Presents humorous episodes from the thirty-story Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
 * //The Wayside School Collection//**

FIC Wes Weston, Robert Paul. 2008. Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the earth. Rhyming couplets.
 * //Zorgamazoo//**