Junie B. Jones

Author: Barbara Park

Most Challenged List

Junie B. Jones is on the most challenged list of children's books because she says what she thinks, and doesn't always obey her parents and other elders.  She calls her teacher Mrs. "because I just like Mrs.  that's all".  Even though these books are on the most challenged list, I do read them in my class.  Junie B.  does talk like the kids in Kindergarten, in this 'epidsode' she is afraid to ride the bus.  She has been told big kids will pour chocolate milk on her head...so she hides in the classroom only to find herself locked in the school after hours.  She goes on a secret mission to look around the school where she finds dangerous places like the nurses office.  Only when she has an 'emergency' and can not get into the bathroom, does she call 911 and is rescued.  This book is filled with giggles, and common happenings in a Kindergarten classroom.  Junie B. is just one of the gang.

Park, B. Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. Random House Books, 1992.

ISBN: 9780679826422