Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday - Barbara Park [10]
Mother made a face.
“Lovely,” she said.
“I know it is lovely,” I said. “And so I have to get over there right now. Or else Grandma is gonna get to touch it, and not me.”
Then Mother looked at me very strange.
And Daddy went to get his keys.
Mother and Daddy made me take the tool belt back to the store.
They made me give it to the man.
“Here,” I said. “I cannot be trusted with this wonderful thing.”
The man smiled kind of sad.
“Sorry, sis,” he said.
“That’s okay,” I said. “’Cause the nails didn’t actually work that good.”
He gave me my money back.
“Maybe when you’re older,” he said.
“Maybe,” I said. “Plus also I might get a toilet brush.”
After the store, I went to my Grampa Miller’s.
He was working in his garden.
I ran my fastest at him.
“GRAMPA MILLER! HEY, GRAMPA MILLER! DID YOU FIX IT YET? DID YOU ALREADY FIX THE TOILET?”
He twirled me around.
“Not yet!” he said. “Not yet I didn’t! I’ve been waitin’ for you!”
And so just then, me and him hurried up. And we got our tools. And runned upstairs.
Then we took the lid right off that thing!
And I flushed all the water right out of it!
And I touched the big ball!
“This is fun! Right, Grampa? Right? This is the time of our life!” I said.
“Sure it is! Of course it is!” said my grampa Frank Miller.
I laughed very happy.
“Hey, Grampa. Guess what? I am the only one!” I said.
He looked confused at me.
“I am the only one in Room Nine who is fixin’ a toilet!” I explained.
Then Grampa Miller laughed, too. “You’re really somethin’,” he said.
“You’re really somethin’, too, Grampa,” I said back.
Then I hugged him real tight.
And I climbed up on his lap.
And I told him a secret in his ear.
“And guess what else?” I whispered. “I still would like a goat.”
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Text copyright © 1996 by Barbara Park
Illustrations copyright © 1996 by Denise Brunkus
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones and that meanie Jim’s birthday / by Barbara Park; illustrated by Denise Brunkus.
p. cm. “A first stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75479-0
[1. Kindergarten—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Behavior—Fiction.
4. Grandfathers—Fiction.] I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.P2197Jtsl 1996 [Fic]—dc20 95-35513
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