Hilarious and not so much

The True Meaning of Smekday
bu Ada, Rex

Sometimes you have to quit trying to make sense of it all.  Trust the author--she'll get you where you're supposed to go. And then you'll think it's wicked funny when the alien learned his English from very old TV programs and insists on using 'wicked' as his superlative of choice.  And when the alien and the little girl get into a bluffing war about their super powers, including explosive laser eye beams. And putting a cloning machine on an endless feedback loop--
    IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
But if it doesn't, you need to read this book.



 
How Angel Petersen Got His Name
by Gary Paulsen

This was a very short audiobook--kids doing extreme sports before the phrase had been invented.  Not nearly as funny as he wanted it to be.  Maybe it was the reader--there were several episodes that ought to have been hilarious, but hardly a chuckle.  Maybe it's me.  Try for yourself.