From: Leah Langby <langby>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:59:01 -0600

We also enjoyed Good Enough by Paula Yoo. Very funny, and the details about being a serious violinist were accurate, too, which was appreciated at my house. I found the author bio on the back flap one of the funniest parts of the book! Leah

******************************************** Leah Langby Library Development and Youth Services Coordinator Indianhead Federated Library System 1538 Truax Boulevard Eau Claire, WI 54703-1569 phone: 715-839-5082 ext.14 fax: 715-839-5151 email: langby at ifls.lib.wi.us www.ifls.lib.wi.us

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:17 PM Subject: [CCBC-Net] Winding Down LOL


> First, thanks to everyone who has shared some of their favorite funny
> young adult novels. And thanks to Angie Miles, who has offered to
> compile everyone's suggestions and share the resulting list with the
> CCBC-Net community.
>
> If you have any additions to our discussion of humorous young adult
> literature, please share them in the next day or so.
>
> We will begin our discussion of M.T. Anderson's "The Astonishing Life of
> Octavian Nothing" on Thursday of this week.
>
> Regarding funny books, I especially appreciated Lynn Rutan's post that
> digs a little deeper into the responses of children and teens with whom
> she works, and her own reading. I find the subjectivity of humor so
> intriguing--often I find myself feeling like I don't quite "get it" when
> I don't find a book nearly as funny as the person next to me (say,
> another CCBC librarian :) I was not a huge fan of the humor in "Diary of
> a Wimpy Kid" for example, and what really sold me on that book was not
> the humor as much as it was the gradually development of Greg Heffley as
> an unreliable narrator as his perception of reality is gradually
> countered by small facts that emerge in the narrative.
>
> Sometimes I feel like I need to lighten up, but none of us can change
> how we respond, at lest initially, to books, although it is always
> insightful to talk about how we respond differently to any book, bit it
> funny or not.
>
> Last week CCBC librarian Tessa Michaelson and I did a presentation on
> new books that will be featured in the CCBC's next best-of-the-year
> list, and when we got to young adult novels, we seemed to be going from
> one incredible, intense offering to another. That made me appreciate all
> the more the lighthearted relief provided by new YA books such as
> Justine Larbalestier's "How To Ditch Your Fairy" and Paula Yoo's "Good
> Enough" (so fun even as it takes a look at a very real struggle for
> self-determination).
>
> Many of the funny books already mentioned are among those I also like.
> In fact, my adult book club is periodically revisiting "classics" and in
> December we are doing "Catcher in the Rye," but have added Frank
> Portman's "King Dork" as extra credit.
>
> Here are a few others that I don't think have been mentioned--some of
> these are books that I sometimes have to remember are really funny,
> because they offer so much more than humor, as have so many that have
> already been shared:
>
> Feed by M. T. Anderson
> Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
> Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
> Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
> Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
>
> Megan
>
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> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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