Beauty Shop Guy.pdf

Contents 1. My Brand-new Different Name 2. Meeting Maxine 3. Practicing 4. Snipping, Snipping, Snipping 5. Teddy and Tickle 6. The Trouble with Tickle 7. The Terriblest Trouble 8. Hats 9. Learning a Lesson Junie B. Jones is a beauty shop guy Barbara Park 1/ My Brand-new Different Name My name is Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B and that ’s all. Only guess what? That doesn’t even matter anymore! ’Cause I am changing my name to a brand-new different name! It popped right into my head when I waked up this morning! That ’s how come I jumped out of bed. And I zoomed to the kitchen to tell Mother and Daddy. They were sitting at the breakfast table. “People! People! Guess what? Guess what? I am changing my name to a brand-new different name! And it is the loveliest name I ever heard of !” Mother was feeding my baby brother named Ollie. Daddy was reading his paper. They did not pay attention to me. I climbed up on my chair and shouted my new name real loud. “PINKIE GLADYS GUTZMAN! MY NEW NAME IS PINKIE GLADYS GUTZMAN!” Just then, Daddy looked at me over the top of the paper. ’Cause now he was paying attention ! “Excuse me? Could you run that by me one more time?” he asked. “Your new name is Pinkie Gladys what?” I clapped my hands real happy. “GUTZMAN!” I shouted very thrilled. “PINKIE GLADYS GUTZMAN! AND SO FROM NOW ON EVERYBODY HAS TO CALL ME THAT. OR ELSE I WILL NOT EVEN ANSWER! OKAY, DADDY? OKAY?” I hugged myself. “Isn’t it just the cutest name you ever heard of? ’Cause Pinkie is the loveliest color I ever saw ! Plus Gladys Gutzman is the snack lady at school. And so who wouldn’t want to be named after that woman? That ’s what I would like to know !” Daddy shook his head. “I don’t know. This doesn’t really sound like a good idea to me,” he said. I did a frown at that guy. “Why, Daddy? How come? How come it doesn’