Junie B., First Grader (at Last!)

Junie B. Jones Series

Author: Barbara Park

Illustrator: Denise Brunkus

Book 18 in the Junie B. Jones series

Pages: 96

Published: 2001

Age: 6+

Junie B., our temperamental heroine, is now in first grade! She's been put into a brand-new class where she has to make brand-new friends. And as if that weren't hard enough, her brand-new teacher, Mr. Scary ("He made that name up, I believe," Junie writes in a journal assignment), figures out that she needs eyeglasses. Will all the other kids laugh at her? Will that obnoxious Excellent-plus-getting May become even more obnoxious?

About the Junie B. Jones Series

Reading age: 6+ years

Remember when it was scary to go to school? 'Cause it was your first day and you didn't know anything. Meet Junie B. (short for Juniper Beatrice) Jones, kindergartner.

Junie likes: Her grampa Frank Miller and his lovely wife Helen, her Mother and Daddy (sometimes), her bestest friend Herbert (all the time!), pasketti and meatballs, and cheese sandwiches.

Junie dislikes: Tattletale May. Also, roosters . . . and clowns . . . and ponies that stomple you to death.

With more than 50 million books in print, Barbara Park's best-loved chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for over 20 years!

Junie's cheeky attitude and hilarious antics will appeal young readers who like the Judy Moody books by Megan McDonald and Lauren Child's Clarice Bean series.