Children's Fiction Visionary & Metaphysical
Judy Moody Predicts the Future
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2018
- Category
- Visionary & Metaphysical, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Emotions & Feelings
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 9
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 4
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781536200751
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
With the help of a mood ring and a Magic 8 Ball, Judy Moody is convinced she can foretell the future!
Judy has a mood ring, and its Extra Special Powers have put Judy in a predicting mood. But her outrageous predictions have everyone wondering if Judy really is psychic. According to "Madame M" (for Moody), the Toad Pee Club’s long-lost mascot will reappear, Judy will earn the coveted Thomas Jefferson tricorn-hat sticker, and love just might be the real reason behind her teacher’s new eyeglasses.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Megan McDonald is the creator of the popular and award-winning Judy Moody and Stink series. She is also the author of three Sisters Club stories, two books about Ant and Honey Bee, and many other books for children. Megan McDonald lives in California.
Peter H. Reynolds is the illustrator of the Judy Moody and Stink books and the author-illustrator of The Dot, Ish, Sky Color, So Few of Me, The North Star, Rose’s Garden, The Smallest Gift of Christmas, and Playing from the Heart. Born in Canada, he now lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Excerpt: Judy Moody Predicts the Future (by (author) Megan McDonald; illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds)
Judy went to find the librarian.
"What did you get?" Frank asked when she came back.
"Predict Your Head Off!" said Judy. "It’s all about people who predicted stuff about the future. Lynn helped me find it. She’s the cool librarian with the fork-and-pie earrings. Not the mad-face librarian."
"Hey! It’s a Big Head book. I love those. How come they draw the people with such big heads, anyway?" Frank asked.
"Maybe it’s to hold all those big ideas about the future. Look, see?" said Judy, pointing to her book. "These people predicted earthquakes and fires and babies being born."
"Nobody can predict the future," said Frank. "Can they?"
"Ya-huh!" said Judy. "It says right here. Books don’t lie."
"Let me see," said Frank.
"See? Jeane Dixon, Famous American Fortuneteller. She was some lady in Washington, D.C., who stared into her eggs one morning and predicted that President Kennedy would be shot. And she predicted an earthquake in Alaska."
"It also says she predicted that Martians would come to Earth and take away teenagers. I wish that would happen to my big sister."
"If only Stink were a teenager," said Judy.
"Look! It says here that that Jeane Dixon lady saw stuff in whipped cream!" said Frank.
"I’ve seen stuff in whipped cream, too," said Judy. "Lots of times."
"Like what?"
"Like chocolate sprinkles," Judy said, and they both cracked up.
"Hey, look at this," said Judy. "This book can help us with our spelling test. For real."
"No way."
"Way! See this guy?"
"The bald guy with the bow tie?"
"Yep. It says that he lived right here in Virginia. They called him the Sleeping Prophet. When he was our age, like a hundred years ago, he got into trouble in school for being a bad speller. One night he fell asleep with his spelling book under his head. When he woke up, he knew every word in the book. RARE!"
"I’m still going to study," said Frank.
"Not me!" said Judy, wiggling into her coat.
"What are you going to do?" asked Frank.
"I’m going to go home and sleep," said Judy.
When Judy got home, Stink was at the door.
"I don’t have to study for my spelling test," she said, and gave him a big fat hug.
"What’s that for?" asked Stink.
"That’s for just because."
"Just because why?"
"Just because tomorrow I am going to know tons and tons of words, like woodbine."
"Wood what?"
"It’s a creepy vine. It wraps around trees."
"So go find a tree to hug," said Stink.
Instead, Judy went to find the dictionary. The fattest dictionary in the Moody house. She took it from her mom’s office and lugged it up to her room. She did not open it up. She did not look inside. She put the big red dictionary under her pillow. Then she got into her cozy bowling-ball pajamas. She pretended the bowling balls were crystal balls. When she brushed her teeth, she thought she saw a letter in her toothpaste spit. D for Dictionary.
Judy climbed under the covers and leaned back on her pillow. Youch! Too hard. She got two more pillows. At last, she was ready to dream.
Even before she fell asleep, she dreamed of being Queen of the Spelling Bee, just like Jessica Finch was one time for the whole state of Virginia. She dreamed of Mr. Todd’s smiling face when he passed back the tests. Most of all, she dreamed of getting 110% — zero-wrong-plus-extra-credit — on her spelling test.
She could hardly wait for school tomorrow. For once, she, Judy Moody, not Jessica (Flunk) Finch, would get a Thomas Jefferson tricorn-hat sticker for Great Job, Good Thinking.
JUDY MOODY PREDICTS THE FUTURE by Megan McDonald. Copyright (c) 2003 by Megan McDonald. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Editorial Reviews
[Judy's] 4th grade world is mild-mannered: Boys and girls are still friends and still goofy.
—Chicago Tribune
Prediction: another winner starring Judy Moody.
—School Library Journal
JUDY MOODY PREDICTS THE FUTURE in the famously temperamental third-grader's fourth adventure . . . Here Judy, equipped with a mood ring, convinces herself and her classmates of her clairvoyant capabilities.
—Publishers Weekly
McDonald has a wonderful sense of how eight-year-olds think and behave, and the irrepressible Judy is completely believable as she careens out of control in the classroom . . .
—Booklist
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Stink: The Super-Incredible Collection
Books 1-3
Stink: The Stupendously Super-Sonic Collection
Books 1-6
Judy Moody: In a Monday Mood
Stink and the Hairy Scary Spider
Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk
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The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout
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