The Kid in the Red Jacket, Paperback/Barbara Park

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 "