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$7.99 US
5.18"W x 7.62"H x 0.39"D   | 4 oz | 48 per carton
On sale Jul 08, 1997 | 160 Pages | 9780679887928
Age 8-12 years | Grades 3-7
Reading Level: Lexile 590L | Fountas & Pinnell P

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

  • WINNER | 1987
    Utah Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
  • WINNER | 1985
    Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner
  • WINNER | 1984
    Georgia Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1984
    Texas Bluebonnet Master List
  • WINNER | 1982
    Utah Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Georgia Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Tennessee Children's Choice Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
"Barbara Park is one of the funniest writers around"-Booklist
© PamelaTidswell
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. View titles by Barbara Park

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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

Awards

  • WINNER | 1987
    Utah Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
  • WINNER | 1985
    Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner
  • WINNER | 1984
    Georgia Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1984
    Texas Bluebonnet Master List
  • WINNER | 1982
    Utah Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Georgia Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Tennessee Children's Choice Book Award
  • WINNER | 1982
    Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award

Praise

"Barbara Park is one of the funniest writers around"-Booklist

Author

© PamelaTidswell
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. View titles by Barbara Park