HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

The Kid in the Red Jacket - Barbara Park

By Barbara Park

Release Date: 1988-08-12

Genre: Fiction for Kids

4 (47 ratings)
Read Download
If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny!
 
Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends?
Howard Jeeter’s parents have ruined his life. They’ve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like he’s 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 you’re really lonely, you’ll be friends with anyone…right?
 
An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
A Library of Congress Children’s 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

The Kid in the Red Jacket - Barbara Park

By Barbara Park

Release Date: 1988-08-12

Genre: Fiction for Kids

4 (47 ratings)
Read Download
If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny!
 
Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends?
Howard Jeeter’s parents have ruined his life. They’ve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like he’s 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 you’re really lonely, you’ll be friends with anyone…right?
 
An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
A Library of Congress Children’s 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

More by Barbara Park

Junie B. Jones #1: Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

Junie B. Jones #11: Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy

Junie B. Jones #9: Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook

Junie B. Jones #10: Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal

Junie B. Jones #2: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business

Junie B. Jones #13: Junie B. Jones Is (almost) a Flower Girl

Junie B. Jones #25: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)

Junie B. Jones #26: Aloha-ha-ha!

Junie B. Jones #17: Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl

Junie B. Jones #3: Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

Junie B. Jones #6: Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim's Birthday

Junie B. Jones #14: Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime

Junie B. Jones #8: Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed

Junie B. Jones #7: Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren

Junie B. Jones #4: Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying

Junie B. Jones #5: Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake

Junie B. Jones #16: Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day

Junie B. Jones #27: Dumb Bunny

Junie B. Jones #18: First Grader (at last!)

Junie B. Jones #12: Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy

Junie B. Jones #20: Toothless Wonder

Junie B. Jones #19: Boss of Lunch

Junie B. Jones #21: Cheater Pants

Junie B. Jones #15: Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket

Junie B. Jones #24: BOO...and I MEAN It!

Junie B. Jones #28: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff)

Junie B. Jones #23: Shipwrecked

Mick Harte Was Here

Skinnybones

Junie B. Jones #22: One-Man Band

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: 20th-Anniversary Full-Color Read & Listen Edition

The Kid in the Red Jacket

Junie B.'s First Ever Book Collection!

Almost Starring Skinnybones

Don't Make Me Smile

My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters

Rosie Swanson: Fourth-Grade Geek for President

Operation: Dump the Chump

Junie B.'s Second Sensational Ebook Collection!

Maxie, Rosie, and Earl-Partners in Grime

Dear God, Help!!! Love, Earl

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: The Graphic Novel

Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business: The Graphic Novel

Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth: The Graphic Novel

Junie B. Jones y el autobĂşs apestoso (Junie B. Jones [el cĂłmic])

Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying: The Graphic Novel

Junie B. Jones tiene un hermano monĂ­simo (Junie B. Jones [el cĂłmic])

Related Articles