Junie B. Is a Party Animal By: Barbara Park

Junie B. Is a Party Animal  By: Barbara Park

Scholastic, New York

Copy Right: 1997

(Series Selection-4)

            Junie B. is excited that her and Grace finally get to sleep over at rich Lucille’s house.  It starts off bad when Junie breaks a crystal glass and gets worse when she soils Lucille’s grandma’s good linen table cloth and ended with chocolate ice cream on the chair cushion.  Even though Junie refused to jump on the bed per her parents instructions, they failed to mention pillow fights.  One good hit was all it took for the room to fill with falling feathers.  A disgruntled nana orders the girls to bed and anticipates morning when they will be picked up by their parents.

            Of all the Junie B. Jones books I have read this is the one I liked the least.  The ending where Junie decides that she is more of a plastic bowl not crystal bowl girl is more like the stories I am use to.  This was still worth reading, you still see the same old Junie, you just miss some of the outside story lines.  There is still the same text to text connection with other books in this series.  Students would still be able to find a text to self connection by recalling their own sleepover adventures and what it was like at their grandparent’s house.