Skinnybones (10 page)
Authors: Barbara Park
they’ve given them all these awards:
Arizona Young Reader’s Award
Georgia Children’s Book Award
Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire)
IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
IRA Young Adults’ Choice
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Minnesota)
Milner Award (Georgia)
Nevada Children’s Book Award
OMAR Award (Indiana)
Rhode Island Children’s Book Award
Tennessee Children’s Choice Book Award
Texas Bluebonnet Award
Utah Children’s Book Award
Young Hoosier Book Award (Indiana)
ALMOST STARRING SKINNYBONES
by Barbara Park
When Alex Frankovitch—better known as Skinnybones—gets the chance to star in a TV commercial, it seems as though his dreams have come true. Who cares if it’s just a cat food commercial and he plays a six-year-old wearing a dorky coonskin cap? It’s still national television—and a rare opportunity to thumb his nose at his classmates. So why does the Alex Frankovitch Fan Club attract only two members—a cat and a toddler? And why do all the kids laugh hysterically every time they see him? Is this the end of Skinnybones’ career as a Big Celebrity?
“Park is laugh-out-loud funny!”
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Booklist
“Once again demonstrating her remarkable ear for dialogue, Park also shows a good sense of timing in this fast-paced outing.”
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School Library Journal
PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC
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Ever since his little brother, Robert (not so affectionately known as the Slobert), showed up, he’s specialized in ruining Oscar’s life. He even took Oscar’s underwear to school for show-and-tell! Oscar decides he’s had enough and comes up with a wickedly brilliant, top-secret scheme to get the ultimate revenge. It’ll take stealth, courage, and determination. But if he can carry off Operation: Dump the Chump without a hitch, he’ll have a present better than money can buy—a Slobert-free summer!
Winner of Indiana’s Young Hoosier Award
Winner of the Tennessee Children’s Choice Award
It was bad enough that Howard’s parents moved the family to a street called Chester Pewe, but now they want him to be nice to his tag-along neighbor, who happens to be a six-year-old girl. How do they expect him to make any
real
friends with her around? At this rate, he could spend the rest of his life known only by the color of his sportswear!
Winner of a
Parents’ Choice
Gold Award
An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC
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1:
Maxie, Rosie, and Earl—Partners in Grime
Meet Maxie, Rosie, and Earl: just three regular kids who wind up waiting to meet their doom at the principal’s office. Shy Earl is there because he refused to read out loud. Nosy Rosie is there because her teacher is sick of her tattling. And then there’s Maxie, who got in trouble when he tried to defend himself from the other kids in his class. There they wait, like three sitting ducks with no hope of escape—until the fire alarm goes off. Realizing their big break, Maxie, Rosie, and Earl make a run for it—and head straight for the Dumpster …
“Park does it again. Here’s a book so funny, readers can’t help but laugh out loud.”
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Booklist
Available wherever books are sold!
ISBN: 0-679-80643-1
Chronicles 2:
Rosie Swanson: Fourth-Grade Geek for President
Rosie Swanson has always considered it her duty to make sure that the authorities are aware of what’s going on in her school. So what if her classmates think she’s a geek and a snitch?
She
knows that she’s only doing her job. Now, to help fight for the good of the school, she’s decided to run for president of the fourth grade.
But how does someone like Rosie defeat popular kids like Alan Allen and Summer Lynne Jones? With the help of her pals Maxie and Earl, Rosie comes up with a brilliant campaign. She even fights her urge to tattle and forces herself to “be nice to people who make you puke.” But when Alan starts stealing Rosie’s campaign slogans, it’s time to watch out! You just don’t mess with Nosy Rosie …
“Right on target … a very good read.”
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Booklist
“As bright and funny as they come.”
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Kirkus
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ISBN: 0-679-83371-4