Megan McDonald

During a weekend trip to Ocracoke Island, siblings Judy and Stink Moody take part in a pirate treasure-hunting game, in which various clues lead them to silver coins, or "pieces of eight," hidden across the island.

As Judy and the rest of the Virginia Dare Bookworms prepare for the Book Quiz Blowout competition against second- and third-grade readers, her team discovers the other group has a fourth-grader and worry about their chance of winning sets in.

The town's annual Turkey Trot race and festival is coming up, and Judy and Stink are training to win.

Meet Judy Moody, the queen of moods! Bad moods, good moods, even back-to-school moods - Judy Moody has them all. When her teacher assigns the class the task of creating me collages, it puts Judy in a cut-and-paste mood!

When the lights go out in the library, the storytime puppets set out on an adventure to find their missing friend, Hermit Crab.

"A hermit crab in need of a new, bigger shell explores the beach, trying on a variety of unsuitable objects before finding the right fit"--

These buddies, a rabbit and a chipmunk, are sick and tired of being good. They want to know what it's like to be baddies, and they want thrills and excitement, but they're going to need some experience making mischief. Next thing you know, they're shelving books in un-alphabetical order and borrowing markers without asking, and that's just the warm-up. In no time they'll be hardened criminals.

It's 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America's 200th birthday. Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train in honor of the Bicentennial. The journey is filled with adventures, challenges, and self-discovery as Julie faces her fears to make an important contribution to her country's birthday. The "Looking Back" section provides additional information about Bicentennial celebrations in the United States.--From publisher's description....

Julie is in school detention for passing a note to Joy, a deaf student who has trouble understanding what their teacher is saying. Indignant, Julie decides to run for student body president so she can make changes to the detention system. But the other students are put off by Joy, her choice for vice president, and Julie worries that she'll have little chance of winning if she partners with someone who seems so different. With persistence and creative...

Stink and world's worst super-stinky sneakers: A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest. Stink and the great guinea pig express: When Stinky Moody and his friends capture three escaped guinea pigs and return them to Mrs. Birdwistle's shop, they discover guinea pig pandemonium...