Junie B., First Grader_ Boss of Lunch - Barbara Park [9]
“Sugar cookies!” shouted the children. “Thank you, Mrs. Gutzman! Thank you!”
Mrs. Gutzman put her hand on my shoulder.
“Don't thank me, class,” she said. “Junie B. Jones is the one who reminded me to pay you a visit this year. She's the one you need to thank.”
For a second no one said anything. Then, all of a sudden, Herb hollered out thank you, Junie B. Jones! And then all of the other children hollered thank you, too!
I grinned real big. ’Cause those words felt happy in my ears.
After that, I hurried back to the sink and washed my hands. Then I quick put on my mitts and ran back.
Mrs. Gutzman gave me a thumbs-up.
“Ready to go, helper?” she said.
“Ready to go!” I said back.
And so then both of us passed out all of the cookies together.
And I did a perfect job!
And so here is what I am thinking.
I am thinking that maybe someday I won't be the Boss of Lunch after all.
Maybe someday I will just be the Boss of Cookies instead!
Because Boss of Cookies is the most delicious job I ever heard of!
Plus also, I will get to make all the cookie rules! And I have already thought of Rule Number One!
I wrote it in my journal so I won't forget it.
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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.
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Text copyright © 2002 by Barbara Park
Illustrations copyright © 2002 by Denise Brunkus
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Park, Barbara.
Junie B., first grader: boss of lunch / by Barbara Park;
illustrated by Denise Brunkus.
p. cm.
SUMMARY: Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader, is
thrilled when she is told she can help out in the school cafeteria.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89443-5
[1. Schools—Fiction. 2. School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc.—Fiction.]
I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.P2197 Js 2002 [Fic]—dc21 2001048983
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