Funny Books for Tweens & Teens

Growing Up Is Hard. Growing Up with These Friends Is Hilarious!

Remember when your biggest problems were school, friendships, embarrassing moments, and trying to stay out of trouble?

For the Pebble Lane Kids®, getting older doesn't mean the adventures stop. It just means the mistakes get bigger, the situations get crazier, and life gets a whole lot more complicated.

Set in 1980s South Jersey, these funny coming-of-age stories follow a group of neighborhood friends as they navigate middle school, high school, and everything in between.

Rewind the Madness — Book Two

Recommended for ages 10–14

Growing up brings a whole new set of challenges.

The friendships are stronger, the pranks are bigger, and the embarrassing moments seem impossible to escape.

Rewind the Madness continues the Pebble Lane Kids adventures with more laughter, school chaos, unforgettable characters, and the kind of trouble that only these friends could find.

It's a funny, nostalgic adventure for tweens and young teens who enjoy stories about friendship, growing up, and discovering that life rarely goes according to plan.

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Freshman Year — Book Three

For middle grade and teen readers

Welcome to high school, where everything changes!

New surroundings, new challenges, and plenty of opportunities to embarrass yourself.

The Pebble Lane Kids are getting older, but growing up doesn't automatically make them wiser.

Freshman Year follows the friends into another chapter of their lives, filled with teenage humor, awkward situations, changing friendships, and the unpredictable adventures of high school.

Because surviving freshman year is an adventure all its own!

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Why Readers Will Enjoy the Pebble Lane Kids

Humor that feels real. Funny situations, embarrassing moments, and the everyday disasters of growing up.

Friendships that last. Through disagreements, changing interests, and new challenges, these friends keep finding their way back to each other.

Characters who grow with their readers. Follow the neighborhood kids from childhood adventures through middle school and into high school.

A world before smartphones. Discover a time when friendships happened face-to-face, adventures started outside, and every mistake became a story worth telling.

New to the Pebble Lane Kids?

You can begin with Adventures of the Pebble Lane Kids, Book One, and follow the characters as they grow older.

Or explore the later books to discover the humor, friendships, and teenage adventures that make their world unforgettable.

These stories are inspired by real experiences growing up in South Jersey during the 1980s. They're written for younger readers, but adults who remember those years will find plenty to enjoy, too.

Growing Up Was Never This Much Fun!

From neighborhood adventures to middle school madness and the chaos of freshman year, there's always another story waiting on Pebble Lane.

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There's always room for one more friend.