Review: Judy Moody was in a Mood by Megan McDonald

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick; Reissue edition (February 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763648507
• ISBN-13: 978-0763648503

My thoughts:

I really liked this series. I read it several times. It is about this regular girl going into 3rd grade and did not like it one bit. She wants to go back into 2nd where everything is what she knows. Will she like it or not? That is for you to figure out yourself. Don't expect me to tell you everything!

The first day of third grade puts Judy Moody in a mad-face mood. She just knows everyone will come back from summer vacation with word T-shirts, like "Disney World" or "Jamestown: Home of Pocahontas." All Judy has is a plain old no-words T-shirt. She'll have to go to a new classroom, with a new desk, and she won't have an armadillo sticker with her name on it like she did last year. And knowing her luck, she'll end up sitting next to Frank, the boy who eats paste. For breakfast her dad makes eggs with the yellow middle broken, and her younger "bother," Stink, thinks he knows everything now that he's starting second grade. But bad moods never last long with the irrepressible Judy Moody, and before long, her day--and year--look brighter. Mr. Todd assigns the class a "Me" collage, which sets Judy on a lively and hilarious self-exploration over the next few action-packed weeks.