Most of her snide comments are made through internal monologues, but her interactions with her mom through dialogue are also quite funny, too. There’s also a great cast of hilarious supporting characters here.ĭumplin’ by Julie Murphy - I just loved Willowdean, the narrator of this terrific, important novel. Forced to change schools right before her senior year, Anna is self-deprecating, sarcastic, and delightfully bewildered when she moves to the International School of Paris. From antagonists so dumb they’re funny to Yang’s monkey alter ego, this is a humorous look at growing up different in America.Īnna and the French Kissby Stephanie Perkins - I identified so much with the quirky narrator of this novel. Determined to subvert the male-dominated traditions at her private school, Frankie gets into all kinds of mischief, and I loved her headstrong voice.Īmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - This excellent graphic novel pairs multiple storylines, all of which are made hilarious primarily through dialogue and stylistic choices in Yang’s illustrations. lockhart - For me, Frankie is the female version of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by e. If that’s not funny enough as it is, Colin is trying to write a mathematical formula for relationships and likes to find anagrams in random places. Colin Singleton has dated 19 girls named Katherine, and has been dumped by all of them. It’s infused with Alexie’s signature wry humor even against a pretty dark plot backdrop.Īn Abundance of Katherines by John Green - This is, to me, the funniest of Green’s novels, although all of his narrators are pretty hilarious. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianby Sherman Alexie - This novel, paired with illustrations by the narrator, is loosely based on Alexie’s own upbringing somewhere between two identities–his poor Indian self who lives on the rez, and his striving-to-succeed “white” self who attends a better school up the road. So here, in part, is a list of what I recommended to him– YA fiction that’s funny and full of voice.

“Looks like I know what I’ll be brushing up on for my weekend reading,” Mike remarked. Their writing voices were the perfect mentor texts for our students, who’d be focusing on crafting a humorous writing voice over the course of the unit. I started rattling off narrators who cracked me up. “But YA fiction is so hilarious!” I exclaimed. But I’m not sure what to booktalk for fiction.” “ Bossypants, Yes Please, Confederacy of Dunces. After we hammered those out, Mike wondered about which books to booktalk for the unit. While discussing the very bare bones of our comedy unit, we brainstormed mentor texts, seed prompts, and writing skills. Brainstorming the bare bones of a comedy unit

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