Best Funny Book Series for 11 and 12 year olds

Books can make us cry, books can make us swoon, they can make us feel seen, but most importantly books can make us laugh out loud, kicking our legs, slapping our knees and holding back tears.

All stories listed below all have one thing in common: the pains and perils of being a teenager. Through the most hilarious voices in teen literature, we meet brilliant characters as they grow in each book of their series, navigating first crushes, friendships, school and even fame. These are the funniest series for readers aged 11 and 12.

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Georgina Atwell

Toppsta

2025-04-08

2024-11-01

Best Funny Book Series for 11 and 12 year olds

Lottie Brooks Series

If you love funny books filled with illustrations, this is your next read all about growing up and being a teenager! In this series, Lottie navigates the perils of growing up and the pre-teen era. Each book is wonderfully filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and, of course, KitKat Chunkys!

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Geek Girl Series

Loosely based on the author's own experience, the Geek Girl series follows main character Harriet Manners, a self-confessed geek girl who, together with her fashion-loving best friend, embarks on a reluctant modelling career veering from one disaster to another both on the catwalk and off. The fashion world turns out to be no easier than school and she has to deal with real life dramas too – from a new baby step-brother or sister, to trying to keep up with her old friends. Harriet learns to stand up for herself and never lose her geeky roots.

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The Private Blog of Joe Cowley Series

Meet 14-year-old Joe Cowley: he is a wannabe comic artist and self-confessed repeller of girls. These books are his secret blog. The brilliantly funny Ben Davis, who we love for Lenny Lemmon, has turned his pen to older characters with The Private Blog of Joe Cowley. In these books, we meet an initially very awkward Joe, who can't seem to get being a teenager quite right. He is not popular, he isn't anyone's crush and his home life isn't the best either, courtesy of his annoying stepbrother. But maybe setting up a super-secret blog will help. So begins his story, which, without spoiling too much, will involve tricky situations with girls, entering DJ competitions and even moving to the big city!

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Geekhood Series

Fourteen-year-old Archie is a Geek to his core. In the world of role-playing games, he's a Level 5 Mage, capable of summoning the Undead. But with no rule book to navigate Life's Big Challenges – warring parents, nightmare step-parents, orc-like school bullies and crap hair – he's teetering on the brink. Then his world turns completely upside-down when he meets a Beautiful Girl. And so Archie embarks on a Daring Quest to win her heart, which will involve all sorts of side quests and adventures.

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The It Girl Series

In this day and age, most girls would LOVE to be an 'it girl', having followers by the dozens and setting unique trends. For superstar geek Anna Huntley, that all happens somewhat by accident when her father gets engaged to a famous actress. As a result, Anna must learn to deal with the paparazzi and fame, but she is also an average 14-year-old girl, facing all the trials and tribulations that come with teenagehood. For example, meeting a boy and going on a school trip, but especially trying not to look like a socially inept dork and outcast. These books are the story of how she juggles it all.

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The Valentines Series

The Valentine sisters – Hope, Faith and Mercy – have everything a girl could dream of. Fame. Wealth. Beauty. But all that glitters certainly isn't gold, and in many ways they face similar struggles to those of your average teen girl. In each book of this heart-warming trilogy, we follow one of the three sisters as they grow, exploring themes of first romance (and heartbreaks), self-love and self-acceptance.

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Awkward Series

Bella Fisher is a geek. And not in a geek-chic kind of way, but in a secretly-caring-about-failing-maths-and-science way. The book follows all her many trials and tribulations as she faces the nightmare that is being a teenager, from embarrassing parents to first crushes and everything in between. We join her as she tries to persuade the FITTEST BOY IN THE WORLD, Zac, to go to prom with her, faces tough friendship dynamics and wades her way through anxiety-inducing exams. We love the hilarious voice and fresh, honest take at modern teenage-dom.

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Ribblestrop Series

Ribblestrop is no ordinary school. It's got roofless dormitories, distracted teachers, and a perilous underground labyrinth. And then there are the students, from gangsters' children, arsonists and self-confessed wild children! But let's get into just some of the things that happen in this trilogy: we've got circus animals taking over the school, mad librarians to the rescue, ancient mysteries, secret tribes and a strange inspector whose only goal is to destroy the school once and for all. And that's only the tip of the iceberg...

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Georgina Atwell

Toppsta