Suggested Humorous/Funny Fiction for Sixth Grade

 

Looking for something to read that will tickle your funny bone?  Try one of these humorous books.  Some titles will give you a chuckle, while others will make you burst out with laughter.  Books are suggested for Sixth Grade, but remember that each reader is different and might find something interesting at another level.

A weird web site provides Kilgore Junior High students and best friends Matt and Craz the opportunity to make their cartoons become real--with some unexpected and dire consequences.

When his weekly allowance just isn't cutting it anymore, lovable slacker Charlie Joe devises ways to make more money.

While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.

Codename Zero by Chris Rylander

Spies and humor mix together when a desperate man in a nondescript black suit asks thirteen-year-old Carson Fender to deliver a mysterious package for him, and the middle schooler discovers there's something going on in his sleepy North Dakota hometown.

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad: on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher.  Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space, but when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good.

Dark Lord school's out by Jamie Thomson

Now acclimated to life as a thirteen-year-old Earthling, Dirk Lloyd has contacted his home in the Darklands but so has his friend Sooz, who is forming her own alliances.

Eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple, the only ordinary member of a family obsessed with breaking world records, investigates when his family members become involved in mysterious accidents shortly before a major competition.

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.

While on a mission to win the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic regional competition, New York middle schooler Jamie Grimm copes with rival comics and bullies, a buddy in trouble, and a sudden family emergency, all with a sense of humor and the support of his friends.

Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.