SkinnyBones written by: Barbara Park

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Skinny-Bones written by Barbara Park

• Presented by Grant

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Genre Realistic Fiction

• Why did I choose this book?
• I chose this book because its funny and
  interesting.

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Authors Purpose

• Barbara Park wrote this story because it
  entertains you and it tries to make you laugh so
  its sure a really good book of entertainment.

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Characters and Settings

• The main characters are
• Alex
• Ann

• The setting is
• school
• in the present

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Beginning

• First Alex won a contest for a commercial and had
  to go to New York. He thought he was famous.

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Middle

• In the middle Anns dad came to the school and
  performed a magic show. Alex said thats lame.
  He said that because it was not magic.

• Then Anns dad picked Alex to help with the
  magic show. He got to help out with the magic
  show but nobody at school likes Alex.

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End

• Alex finally got along with people and he said
  hes still an okay movie star but they did not
  agree. So he quit being a movie star.

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Summary

• Theres a boy named Alex and he won a contest and
  he was going to New York and he thought he was
  really famous. At school theres a girl named Ann
  and she likes to make Alex really mad. One day
  there was a magic show and Anns dad was the
  magician. Alex got chosen to do the magic but no
  one liked him. Alex finally quit being a movie
  star. He said Im an okay movie star.
  

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Recommendation

• I recommend this book because it has parts that
  are not true that happened in real life. The book
  also makes you laugh.

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Student Page

• My name is Grant. I was born on March 31, 2000
  in Minnesota. I live in Plymouth. My hobby is
  biking. When I grow up I want to be in the NFL.