gr8 txts: humour

Here are our librarians' picks:

Missing, Believed Crazy

Terence Blacker

Five students of exclusive Cathcart College decide to fake a kidnap in order to raise money for charity. It seems like a brilliant idea until everything starts to go horribly wrong. A warm-hearted adventure with different characters giving alternative versions of the same story.

9780330458481 Macmillan Children’s, 2009

The Reformed Vampire Support Group

Catherine Jinks

Nina is a vampire who has decided to give up killing humans. Unfortunately this means that she has to live off guinea-pig blood and every week has to go to a boring group for reformed vampires like herself. When one of the group is reduced to ashes by a mystery killer, Nina and her ex-punk friend Dave decide that they have to find the murderer. This is a murder mystery, a comedy and a vampire novel rolled into one.

9781847247780 Quercus, 2009

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Last Straw

Jeff Kinney

Greg, the ‘wimpy kid’, returns for more hapless adventures in the third book in this popular series, written as a diary scattered throughout with cartoons. In this story, his dad has decided that Greg is too wimpy for his own good and needs to toughen up, otherwise he will get sent to Military School. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he has ruined his soccer team’s whole season and now his mum wants him to do his own laundry.

9780141324920 Puffin, 2009

Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Louise Rennison

Georgia and Jas are in the school production of ‘Rom and Jule’ and the Stiff Dylans are about to make it in the music business but will Dave the Laugh or Masimo the Luuurve God win Georgia’s heart? This is the tenth and final book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series.

9780007277339 HarperCollins, 2009