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Authors: Barbara Park
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After that, she held the pink fluffy girl’s hand. And they went to talk to her teacher.
I quick put my mittens on.
Then I buried my face in their black furry fur.
And I danced around real joyful.
/
I Am Not a Crook
The next day, I went to Principal’s office.
The grouchy typing lady looked over the counter at me.
I rocked back and forth on my feet.
“Yeah, only I’m not even bad, again,” I said. “I just need to go to the Lost and Found, and that’s all.”
The grouchy typing lady opened up the closet. She pulled out the big box.
Just then, the phone rang. And she hurried up to answer it.
I quick bended down and digged my hands in the Lost and Found.
Then my heart got very thrilled. ’Cause I saw that wonderful teddy backpack again, that’s why!
I snuggled my face in his tummy.
“Mmm…I still love this softy guy,” I whispered.
I put him on my back and skipped all around.
The grouchy typing lady hanged up the phone.
“Did you lose that, too?” she asked me. “Is that why you’re here?”
I kept on standing there and standing there.
“Wellll?” she said.
Finally, I did a big sigh.
Then I walked very slow back to the box.
And I took off the teddy backpack.
“No,” I said. “Not why.”
After that, I reached in my pocket. And I pulled out my wonderful pen.
“I found this,” I said. “It was on the
floor by the water fountain. And I really, really love it. Only that is not the issue.”
Then I did a big, deep breath. And I dropped my wonderful pen into the Lost and Found.
“I am not a crook,” I said kind of quiet.
The grouchy typing lady looked nicer at me. She ruffled my hair.
“No,” she said. “Of course you’re not a crook.”
After that, I rocked back and forth on my feet some more. And I waited and waited and waited.
The typing lady raised up her eyebrows at me.
“I’m waiting for the grin,” I explained. “Only there seems to be a delay.”
She laughed right out loud.
That’s when I felt it.
The grin.
It came right on my face!
“Hey! It’s working! It’s working!” I said real squealy.
I skipped all around the office very happy.
Then the typing lady opened up the door. And I skipped all the way to Room Nine.
And guess what?
I didn’t even find a pen that writes four different colors!
And that was a big relief!
#1
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
#2
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business
#3
Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth
#4
Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying
#5
Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake
#6
Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim’s Birthday
#7
Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren
#8
Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed
#9
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook
#10
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
#11
Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy
#12
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
#13
Junie B. Jones Is (almost) a Flower Girl
#14
Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime
#15
Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket
#16
Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day
#17
Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl
#18
Junie B., First Grader (at last!)
#19
Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch
#20
Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder
#21
Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants
#22
Junie B., First Grader: One-Man Band
#23
Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked
#24
Junie B., First Grader: BOO…and I MEAN It!
#25
Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)
#26
Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!
#27
Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny
Top-Secret Personal Beeswax: A Journal by Junie B. (and me!)
Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School
“
Finders keepers, losers weepers…
I used to love that poem when I was little. Whenever I would find a ‘treasure’ in the street, I would pick it up—happily sing
Finders keepers, losers weepers
—and carry it right home.
Then came the day that I accidentally left my brand-new red shoes in the girls’ bathroom at school. By the time I ran back for them, they were already gone.
Now someone
else
was singing
Finders keepers, losers weepers
. And suddenly, I didn’t like that stupid poem at
all!
I
still
don’t!
(And by the end of this book, neither does Junie B. Jones!)
”
Text copyright © 1997 by Barbara Park
Illustrations copyright © 1997 by Denise Brunkus
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones is not a crook / by Barbara Park; illustrated by Denise Brunkus.
p. cm.
SUMMARY: Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when they disappear from the playground.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75475-2
[1. Mittens—Fiction. 2. Lost and found possessions—Fiction.
3. Honesty—Fiction. 4. Kindergarten—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.]
I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.P2197Jtx 1997 [Fic]—dc20 96-42542
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