Junie B. Jones 작가 바바라 파크의 Skinnybones 시리즈 #01

야구? 알렉스 프랑코보비치는 팀에서 가장 작고, 두 번째로 못하는 아이다. 하지만 떠버리 알렉스에게는 메이저 리그급 말솜씨가 있다! 그런데 그것이 메이저 리그급 문제를 일으키게 된다. 학교 전체를 통틀어 (아니, 세계를 통틀어) 가장 최고의 선수이자 제일 바보인 T. J. 스토너와 투구 시합을 한다고 떠벌렸을 땐 아무리 알렉스라도 이번엔 너무 멀리 왔다는 걸 알고 있었다. 알렉스는 이 대혼란에서 벗어날 수 있을까? 아니면 모든 굴욕의 그랜드슬램을 달성하게 될까?

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Play ball??? Alex Frankovitch is the smallest, second-worst kid on his team. But he has a MAJOR-LEAGUE-sized mouth. And it gets him into MAJOR-LEAGUE trouble! Even Alex knows he’s gone too far when he brags his way into a pitching contest with T.J. Stoner, the best player─and BIGGEST jerk─in the whole school (and maybe the whole world!). Can Alex talk his way out this mess? Or is he in for the GRAND SLAM of all humiliations? Find out in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Junie B. Jones!
 
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