BARBARA PARK is one of today's funniest, most popular authors. Her middle-grade novels, which include Skinnybones, The Kid in the Red Jacket, My Mother Got Married (And Other Disasters), and Mick Harte Was Here, have won over forty children's book awards.
"She's funny, she's outrageous, she's bigger than life. I'min love with Jume B...and with Barbara Parks warm,wonderful, laugh-aloud stones. " --Patncla Redly Gift,author of the Newbery Honor Book Lily's Crossing