Synopses & Reviews
For the smallest kid on the baseball team, Alex “Skinnybones” Frankovitch has a major-league big mouth! But when he brags his way into a pitching contest, this might be one mess that not even Alex can talk his way out of.
Synopsis
If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY--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 MILLION 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 BIGGEST 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
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"Barbara Park is one of the funniest writers around"-
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About the Author
BARBARA PARK is best known as the author of the wildly popular
New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones series, which has kept kids (and their grown-ups) laughing—and reading—for over two decades. Beloved by millions, the Junie B. Jones books have been translated into multiple languages and are a time-honored staple in elementary school classrooms around the world. Every bit as funny as her best-known character, Barbara once said, “There are those who believe that the value of a children’s book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that’s huge.”
Barbara Park is also the author of award-winning middle grade novels and bestselling picture books, including Skinnybones, Mick Harte Was Here, and The Kid in the Red Jacket.
Barbara Park was born in New Jersey in 1947 and spent most of her adult life in Arizona, where she and her husband, Richard, raised two sons. Barbara died in 2013, but her legacy lives on in the laughter her books give to readers all over the world.