Junie B., First Grader_ Boo and I Mean It! - Barbara Park [8]
“I don't actually know, Herbert,” I said. “Possibly.”
Herb gave the glasses back to me.
“Here,” he said. “Put them on and read something.”
I rocked back and forth on my feet.
“Well, okay, Herb. If you insist,” I said.
After that, I put on my glasses. And I walked all the way to the back of the room.
I read the announcement off the board.
“Friday, September 23,” I read. “Today, get ready for Show-and-Tell.”
I smiled real proud.
“The end,” I said.
After that, I went back to my desk.
Herb hurried over to me.
He gave me a high five.
And guess what else?
Lennie and José gave me high fives, too!
Mr. Scary did a thumbs-up. “Excellent glasses, Junie B. Jones,” he said.
“Sí,” said José. “Excelente!”
“Yes,” called Lucille. “I like those glasses, too, Junie B. ’Cause purple is a popular fashion color this fall.”
My heart felt cheery at that news.
I looked at May very smuggy.
“Well, yay for purple,” I said.
After Show-and-Tell was over, Mr. Scary gave us more time for our journals.
I picked up my pencil real happy. And I added two more lines.
I looked around the room and grinned.
Everything was crystal clear.
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BARBARA PARK is one of today's funniest, most popular authors. Her middle-grade novels, which include Skinnybones, The Kid in the Red Jacket, My Mother Got Married (And Other Disasters), and Mick Harte Was Here, have won over forty children's book awards. Barbara holds a B.S. in education from the University of Alabama. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband, Richard, in Arizona.
DENISE BRUNKUS'S entertaining illustrations have appeared in over fifty books. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter.
Text copyright © 2001 by Barbara Park
Illustrations copyright © 2001 by Denise Brunkus
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Park, Barbara.
Junie B., first grader (at last!) /
by Barbara Park; illustrated by Denise Brunkus.
p. cm. — “A Stepping Stone book.”
SUMMARY: Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89442-8
[1. Schools—Fiction. 2. Eyeglasses—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction.]
I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.P2197Jr 2001 [Fic]—dc21 2001019076
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