Quotes from Megan McDonald

Louise M. Moody's Bucket List • Ride an elephant • See the pyramids in Egypt • Send a message in a bottle • Gaze at the northern lights • Sleep in a castle • Swim with dolphins • Learn sign language • Make a difference • Dance the rumba • Read War and Peace for the third time

Math-a-chu-setts.

Yeah, in Zombie everything starts with a Z," said Webster.

He read them a book called Frozen Man, the incredible, real-life story of a five-thousand-year-old mummy.

Judy dumped all the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and pastels she had on the floor. Stink grabbed the first blue marker he saw and started to draw. "What are you drawing?" "Bats," said Stink. "Blue bats." "You're bats," said Judy. "People don't like bats." "But bats eat millions of insects," said Stink. "People should like bats.

That's as preposterous as a H-I-P-P-O-P-O-T-A-M-U-S," Jessica said.

Stink woke up the next morning, his bed felt as big as a country. The ceiling was up

I," said Stink, "am getting the World's Biggest Jawbreaker." He held it up for Judy to see. "It changes colors and flavors as you go." "Rare! It looks like an earth. Or a giant emu egg or something." "Or something," said Stink. "Stink, I don't think you want to eat that.

Terrible," said Stink. "I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, just-like-that-kids'-book yuck days." "What's wrong?" asked Mom, coming into the room. "Stink hit his friend Webster

Webster (the friend, not the dictionary). He wrote a letter to his other best friend, Elizabeth, who liked to be called Sophie of the Elves. He even wrote a letter to his teacher, telling her how great he was at writing letters.

Chloe. She, Judy-Moody-not-Stink, was in charge of piles and piles of money and got to dish

I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.

I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather be. In the middle.

The Toad Pee Club had taken one small step for toadkind and one giant leapfrog for humankind.

Ow." Pulling out the Magic 8 Ball, Judy asked a question, shaking it hard: "Dear Magic 8 Ball: Could this summer get any worse?" The window cleared: Without a doubt.

I'm in the Toad Pee Club!

fair! You guys had

summer ever. RARE! Judy passed a note to Rocky before Mr. Todd came back.

Judy Moody did not want to give up summer. She

Knife, Fork, Spoon. Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's the Rule of Three.

Frank Pearl eats paste

said back into the phone. The manhole was exactly halfway between Judy's front door and Rocky's. Over the summer they had measured it with a very long ball of string.

zooming out the door. Two

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