The Kid in the Red Jacket

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UPC:
9780394805719
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
8/12/1988
Release Date:
8/12/1988
Author:
Barbara Park
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNYcatch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novelsjust right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny!

Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends?
Howard Jeeters parents have ruined his life. Theyve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like hes totally invisible. At least, all of them except for his six-year-old neighbor, Molly Vera Thompson. Howard could use a friend. But a little girl who talks nonstop? Not what he had in mind. Still, when youre really lonely, youll be friends with anyoneright?

An IRA-CBC Childrens Choice
A Library of Congress Childrens Book of the Year
A Parents Choice Gold Award Winner

* Park writes in a witty and bittersweet style about the awkward, supersensitive age of early adolescence. Another first-rate addition to the middle-grade popular reading shelf. School Library Journal, Starred

[A] witty middle-grade novel. Publishers Weekly