# Barbara Park — books assigned in US schools

**4** books by Barbara Park appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** 3–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/barbara-park
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- baseball
- baseball stories
- family
- grief
- humorous stories
- kindergarten
- occupations
- safety
- schools
- schools in fiction

## Genres

- Humor (2)
- Realistic Fiction (2)

## Every Barbara Park title on file

- [Skinnybones](https://readinglist.school/book/skinnybones) _(Grades 3–6 · 1982)_
- [Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth](https://readinglist.school/book/junie-b-jones-and-her-big-fat-mouth) _(Grades 3–8 · 1993)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) _(Grades 5–8 · 2011)_
- [Operation: Dump the Chump](https://readinglist.school/book/operation-dump-the-chump) _(Grades 4–8 · 2011)_

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