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!
We know readers aged 12+ will love the unstoppable, unfathomable and unbelievable Joe Cowley in his series hailed as Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets The Inbetweeners.
For more books like this, do check our recommended Best Funny Book Series for 13 and 14 year olds.
All The Private Blog of Joe Cowley books in order:
Book 1: The Private Blog of Joe Cowley (2014)
Book 2: Return of the Geek (2015)
Book 3: Welcome to Cringefest (2015)
Book 4: Straight Outta Nerdsville (2017)
Great book with great humour and ideas. There are a couple of photos here and there; and it's a million times as good as diary of a wimpy kid and a bi...