Junie B. Jones; And her Big Fat Mouth By: Barbara Park

Junie B. Jones; And her Big Fat Mouth By: Barbara Park

Illustrations: Denise Brunkus

Scholastic Inc; New York

Copy Right: 1993

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             Junie B. encounters her typical mischief in this book.  She decides she hates room 9 and then gets the tar scared out of her when she is lucky enough to find life savers on the ground.  Only the janitor started yelling for spit them out, even after she explained that she blew the germs off!   Junie’s larger conundrum this book is that she can’t decide what she wants to dress up for on job day, yet that didn’t stop her from telling the class her job was going to be the best.  She eventually decides on a career when she sees her mother blowing off the germs from her brother Ollie’s pacifier and informs her that “you can’t blow germs off”.  That is when she decided to be a janitor for job day.  It took some convincing, but eventually the class decided it was the best job ever.

            Students will love Junie B. and all of her antics.  They will find text to text connection with other Junie B. books, but also with such titles as Judy Moody.  As for text to self connections students should find plenty of connections. They are in schools and they all have janitors.