Funny Stories For Teens

To keep everyone laughing, we’ve updated our Teen Humor list for 2025.  Here are some highlights.

In Elise Bryant’s novel Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling, Black nerd Reggie keeps running into biracial punk singer Delilah on various holidays throughout the year.  Eventually, they start their own holidays just so they can keep meeting. 

In How Maya Got Fierce, by Sona Charaipotra, Maya’s wanted to work for fashion magazine Fierce for years, so when she gets a chance to intern there, she jumps at it, not revealing her family’s farmer roots or her actual age.  How long can she fool her new bosses? 

Ann Liang’s novel This Time It’s Real follows Eliza, who is stumped by an assignment to describe a close relationship.  When she invents an imaginary boyfriend, her essay goes viral and she is offered a job as a romance advice columnist, forcing her to turn to a classmate she doesn’t know to act as her boyfriend.  Luckily, he’s already a famous TV actor. 

Dan Santat’s memoir, A First Time for Everything: A True Story, tells how in 1989, Dan’s parents sent him on a class trip to Europe.  Even though he was still surrounded by the girls who had teased him in class, he met new friends and had his first Fanta, first fondue, first beer, first time stealing a bike from East German punk rockers, and even first love.   

Diary of a Confused Feminist, by Kate Weston, follows Kat, who is making changes in her life to become more of an ecofeminist who will stop at

nothing to smash the patriarchy.  Until she meets Hot Josh. 

~posted by Wally B.