Skinnybones

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Summary: the most hilarious book I've ever read
Review: My 7 yr old son and I started reading this book as a bedtime story and couldn't stop. We went through half the book the first night. Alex Frankovitch is hilarious. We laughed so hard, we cried - especially at the kitty fritters story and just wait until you read the story about the leprechaun. Lucky Charms is our new favorite cereal thanks to this book. We can't see a box without laughing. This is one of those stories you want to keep reading. It's all I can do not to read it without him but I know it will ruin the laughter it brings from both of us.

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Summary: Please,can I read this book for the 9,999th time?
Review: My love of Barbara Park began with her Junie B. Jones books. Although I've read several of her middle-grade novels this is the one I like as well as her early chapter books. I laughed out loud and loved this story's twists and turns.

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Summary: Hilarious Middle-grade Novel
Review: My love of Barbara Park began with her Junie B. Jones books. Although I've read several of her middle-grade novels this is the one I like as well as her early chapter books. I laughed out loud and loved this story's twists and turns.

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Summary: Funniest book I read as a kid
Review: One of the funniest books I remember reading as a kid, I looked it up again as an adult to buy for my kids. I think it's a great book to hook boys into reading as it's about baseball, but I laughed just as loud as a girl. I remember laughing out loud until it hurt when I read this and remembering the funny parts still gives me a chuckle.

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Summary: It just doesn't have the same appeal...
Review: Since the third grade, Skinnybones has been my absolute favorite book. I love it! It is so hilarious! Highlights include: Alex's definition of 'bunting', when he fed too much Kitty Fritters to his cat, ordering the 'large'shirt, "Did you just say 'whoopsie', Mr. Peoples?", his goldfish, and his grandmother's 'steel blue' rinse. As you can probably tell already, I've given you bits and peices of the original story. I know that Barbara Park wanted to update the story because kids would write to her and ask what some things that were mentioned were, but I think she reworked too much. It isn't the same novel and I don't think that it's nearly as funny. Maybe that's just because I've read the original so many times. I don't know... If you can find a copy of the original in a used bookstore or something, I suggest you buy that so you can get the full effect. If not, I DO hope you enjoy it. It's worth it anyway.

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Summary: one of the best books
Review: Skinnybones was a very good book. If you like comedy then you should read this book. When Alex gets challenged to a pitching contest he loses and doesn't like it. Then Alex wins a kitty fritters contest and gets put on t.v. Then the kid he played in the contest gets put in the world record book. Read this book when you get the chance to you'll love it.

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Summary: Hilarious and poignant
Review: The first time I read this book I literally fell out of bed from laughing so hard. As a teacher, I read this book to my class nearly every year, and they love it! Alex is an endearing underdog who tries so hard to be what he is not: a size Large, knowledgeable baseball player. When he hears that a player is going to bunt he hasn't a clue what bunting means. He guesses it might mean to throw up, and this leads into the funniest scene I've ever read in children's literature. Every time I have to read it aloud I hardly can get through; I'm laughing so hard all my mascara runs. My class always gets an incredibly healthy, side-splitting, laugh from Alex's antics. He's also a very real character, with an inferiority complex, and a quirky way of viewing the world. He does find his strength in the end: comedy writing. This leads him into the sequel, Almost Starring Skinnybones, where his inferiorty complex turns into boasting bravado. One of the great qualitities of these books is Alex's depth of character, a real study in what can make "class clowns". I think the kids gain some understanding into the possiblity of sadness beneath the hilarity and the attention-seeking.

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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This book was great! Everybody should read this book. My teacher read it to me in third grade. The whole class always laughed and always wanted the teacher to read more. The book is about a boy named Alex. He always lies, is a terrible baseball player, and always gets himself into terrible messes. Then, there is the jerk, T.J. who is a great baseball player. Everybody thinks he is all that and he is always picking on Alex about his size and what a bad baseball player he is. Read this book! I would reccomend it to anyone!

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Summary: Funny as ever, but why the updates?
Review: This book was one of my favorites when I was a kid (I'm 24 now) Skinnybones had, and still has, the ability to keep you giggling not only while you are reading it, but even after you've put it down. The only problem I had with this version was the disappointing decision by Barbara Park to "update" the references to ballplayers and the vernacular. To new readers of this book, this complaint doesn't matter, but to nostalgic readers like myself the differences detract enough from the book to be noticable

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Summary: Skinnybones
Review: This is one of my all time favorite books. It was read to me in school when I was in Third grade, that was 19 years ago. Since then I have read it several times again and I still laugh at Alex Frankovich and his encounters. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I did. I highly recommend this to children of all ages!