Judy Moody Around the world in 8 1/2 days

Megan McDonald

Book - 2006

Judy Moody's new friendship with Amy Namey causes problems with her old friends and the school project they are working on together.

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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press 2006.
Language
English
Main Author
Megan McDonald (-)
Other Authors
Peter H. (Peter Hamilton) Reynolds, 1961- (illustrator)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
157 p. : ill
ISBN
9780763648640
9780763628321
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Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-4-In this episode (Candlewick, 2010) of the series by Megan McDonald, Judy meets a new girl who is a lot like her. Amy Namey invites Judy Moody to join the exclusive "My-Name-Is-a-Poem Club," and soon Judy must learn to juggle old and new friends. Judy is supposed to be working on an Around-the-World class project tracking the path of Nelly Bly's historic journey with Rocky and Frank, and the boys begin to feel alienated. Judy's brother, Stink, serves as go-between in a she-said, he-said sequence that is spot-on and rendered with genuine humor and angst by narrator Barbara Rosenblat whose timing and skill allow her to capture the nuances of third graders. Their teacher's attempt to help Judy and her team mend their rift by extending the deadline for the project leads to a satisfactory conclusion. Kids will find themselves rooting for Judy and learning a bit of history at the same time.-Janet Thompson, Chicago Public Library, IL (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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CHAPTER ONE The girl had a notebook and a clipboard. The girl wore a blue plaid skirt like a school uniform, and not one but TWO watches. The girl had a pencil behind her ear. The girl looked very noticeable in her blue-green glasses. The girl came over to Judy Moody's lunch table and plopped herself down right beside Judy's friends Rocky and Frank. She, NOT Judy Moody, looked like she was in a reporter mood. Who was this important-looking, glasses-wearing girl, anyway? Judy wondered. "Amy Namey, Girl Reporter," said the girl. "What's the scoop?" "Um . . . Screamin' Mimi's chocolate mud?" asked Judy. "Not the ice-cream kind of scoop," said the girl. "The story kind of scoop. I'm a reporter," she said. "Like Nellie Bly, Daredevil Reporter." She, Judy Moody, could not believe her ears. Frank asked, "Is that like Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Doctor?" Judy leaned in closer. "Check!" said the girl. She wrote something on her clipboard. "I'm from Ms. Valentine's class, 3V. Can I ask you a few questions? For my newspaper?" "You have your own paper?" asked Frank Pearl. "Sure!" said the girl. Just then, Super-Important Girl Reporter held out a ketchup-bottle microphone. "What's your favorite school lunch?" she asked. "Quesadilla pizza, popcorn chicken, or French toast sticks?" "French toast is breakfast," said Judy. "Pizza!" screamed Rocky and Frank at the same time. "Check!" said the girl. She checked the paper on her clipboard. "I pack my lunch," said Judy. "How many times a week should the cafeteria have pizza?" she asked. "Three," said Frank. "Five!" said Rocky. "Every day! With extra cheese!" "Check!" said the girl. Who was this list-checking, clipboard-carrying Pizza Reporter, anyway? And why were Rocky and Frank, Judy's best-ever friends, talking to her? "You can't really get us pizza every day for lunch," said Judy. "Why not?" asked the girl. "My mom knows the lunch ladies. Besides, it's a free country." "Hey! That's what you always say!" Frank said to Judy. "Do not!" "Do too!" said Rocky and Frank at the same time. "Question Number Three," said the girl. "What else would you like to change about Virginia Dare School?" . . . "No Pizza Reporters bugging us at lunchtime," said Judy. The girl stopped writing. The girl did not say "Check!" In spite of herself, Judy got caught up in the moment. "Okay. I have an idea! For real!" said Judy. "Chew gum in school!" . . . "I could work on my ABC gum collection at school," said Judy. "Start one under my desk. Not just at home on the lamp by my bed." Girl Reporter was writing again. "ABC stands for Already Been Chewed," said Judy. "I know that," said the girl. "I collect gum too. I've been to the world's best-ever collection of ABC gum. The biggest in the world." "Huh?" asked Judy. "Sure!" said the girl. "Bubblegum Alley. It's in California." "I went to Boston," said Judy. "I saw it on summer vacation. You walk down this alley between two buildings and there's a Wall of Gum on each side. Chewed-up gum that people stuck there. Some even made pictures and stuff out of gum. I chewed five black gumballs from the machine they have there and added it to the wall." "No way!" said Rocky. "Way!" said the girl. "It's like a Gum Hall of Fame. Or a Gum Wall of Excerpted from Judy Moody: Around the World in 8 1/2 Days (Book #7) by Megan McDonald All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.