A Boov named J.Lo

The last book I read was subtle science  fiction, but The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex is in-your-face sci fi...and funny, too!  It's a relatively long book and almost too complicated too describe. Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is writing an essay about Smekday, which  honors the day that the alien Boovs took over the Earth and renamed it Smekland in honor of their glorious Captain Smek.  So what should she start with: when she makes friends with a Boov named J.Lo?  The trip she takes with J.Lo and Pig the cat to Happy Mouse Kingdom?  The car they ride in - Slushious - which now floats, thanks to J.Lo?  Or maybe the battle against the obnoxious Gorgs, which clone themselves and travel around by means of...wait for it...teleclone booths?  If you like crazy, silly, laugh-out-loud books, you've got to try this one.

You can be SPHDZ, too

If you're looking for something that's just plain goofy, Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka is the book for you.  Michael K. is starting fifth grade at a new school, and he's stuck with two other new kids who are extremely weird.  Bob always sounds like a commercial ("Think outside the bun!"), Jennifer sounds like a wrestling announcer ("Get rrrrready to rrrrrumble!"), and they insist that the hamster in their class is Major Fluffy, their mission leader.  Their mission?  To recruit 3,140,001 kids to become SPHDZ, so that Earth doesn't get turned off.  Meanwhile, super-klutz Agent Umber from the Anti-Alien Agency is on their trail, in hilarious disguises.  Tons of pictures will remind you of the Wimpy Kid series, and the web sites that are mentioned in the book are real!  Lots of laughs, and if you like it, you're in luck - it's the first in a series.