I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein.

[2][3] Wheelchair-using middle-schooler Jamie Grimm has recently moved in with his aunt’s cheerless family after his own family died in a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Despite Jamie’s desire to be treated like an ordinary kid and his struggles with grief for his lost family, he is a natural comedian and displays this in his day-to-day life.

Much of this is fueled by his friends’ reactions to his one-liners and the encouragement of his warmhearted uncle.

He enters a local comedy contest, wins it, and eventually goes on to win the New York state kid comic contest.