Meg Rosoff's There is No Dog
This is one of those YA books that could easily be shelved in the sci-fi/fantasy shelves instead, alongside authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. (I'm pretty sure it's being marketed as YA b/c Rosoff has written several YA books.) Though it is slightly less silly than those guys' books, the premise and characters would feel right at home with them--I mean, it's about God, who is an eternally selfish teenage boy named Bob (whose mother won the job in a poker game and passed it off on him), the administrator who actually runs things, and what other Godly dramas happen when Bob falls for a pretty young assistant zookeeper. This was really, really fun reading. A-.
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