Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

Barbara Park. Random House Books for Young Readers, $11.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-375-82804-1

Next installments detail the ongoing exploits of familiar characters. In Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked by Barbara Park, illus. by Denise Brunkus, the kids of Room One prepare a Columbus Day play. But with a virus spreading through the class and a feud between Junie and May (playing the Pinta and the Santa Maria of Columbus's fleet, respectively), will the play stay afloat?

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