Skinnybones by Barbara Park

Skinnybones by Barbara Park

If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNY--catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with Skinnybones Just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny, Skinnybones has been a kid and teacher favorite for almost thirty years and has sold over 1 MILION copies

Play ball Alex Frankovitch is the smallest, second-worst kid on his team. But he has a MAJOR-LEAGUE-sized mouth. And it gets him into MAJOR-LEAGUE trouble Even Alex knows he's gone too far when he brags his way into a pitching contest with T.J. Stoner, the best player--and BIGEST jerk--in the whole school (and maybe the whole world ). Can Alex talk his way out this mess? Or is he in for the GRAND SLAM of all humiliations? Find out in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Junie B. Jones

Park is one of the funniest writers around. Skinnybones equals tickled funnybones. --Booklist

Hilarious Even if you don't know center field from first base this story will keep you laughing. --Children's Book Review Service

Park writes.in a way that touches reality, but makes the reader double over with laughter. --Chicago Sun-Times

Barbara Park was best-known as the creator and author of the New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones series, the stories of an outrageously funny kindergartener that have kept kids (and their grownups) laughing--and reading--for over two decades. The series was consistently a #1 New York Times bestseller, spending over 180 weeks on the list, and Barbara and her books were profiled in such national outlets as Time, Newsweek, USA Today, the New York Times, and Today.Barbara Park arrived at the writing profession through an indirect route. Before becoming a bestselling and beloved children's author, she originally intended to teach high school history and political science. She got her secondary education degree but quickly realized that her calling was to be a writer. After several rejections, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers acquired her first manuscript, Operation: Dump the Chump and two others. Don't Make Me Smile was published first in 1981, followed by Operation: Dump the Chump (1982) and Skinnybones (1982). She went on to write over 50 books, from the picture book Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here!, a love letter to her grandson, to middle grade novels such as Skinnybones, The Kid in the Red Jacket, Mick Harte Was Here, and The Graduation of Jake Moon. Barbara won more than 40 children's book awards, including several Children's Choice Awards. Barbara Park was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, on April 21, 1947, and spent most of her adult life in Arizona. There she, with her husband, Richard, raised her two sons and spent time with her two young grandsons. Park died on November 15, 2013 after fighting ovarian cancer heroically for seven and a half years.

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ISBN 13	9780679887928
ISBN 10	067988792X
Title	Skinnybones
Author	Barbara Park
Series	Skinnybones Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-07-08
Number of pages	160
Prizes	Winner of Georgia Children's Book Award 1984, Winner of Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award 1986, Winner of Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award 1986, Winner of Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner 1985, Winner of Texas Bluebonnet Master List 1984, Winner of Utah Children's Book Award 1987
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