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Summary
Judy gets a taste of her own medicine in a hilarious new episode sure to tickle your humerus (aka funny bone) and put you in a very Judy Moody mood!
She took her own temperature. With the fancy thermometer that beeped. It was not normal. It was not 98.6. Judy's temperature was 188.8! Judy's temperature was 00.0! Judy's temperature was beep-beep-beep-beep-beep. She, Judy Moody, had the temperature of an outer-space alien!
Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and now, she, Judy Moody, is in a medical mood! It's no secret that Judy wants to be like Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor, when she grows up. So when Class 3T starts to study the Amazing Human Body, Judy can hardly wait to begin her better-than-best-ever third-grade projects: show-and-tell with something way rarer than a scab, a real-live ooey-gooey operation, and a cloning experiment that may create double trouble for Judy and her friends. RARE!
Author Notes
Megan McDonald was born February 28, 1959, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She grew up in the 1960s the youngest of five girls - which later became the inspiration of the Sister's Club. She attended Oberlin College and received a B.A. in English, then she went on to receive a Library Science degree at Pittsburgh University in 1986. Before becoming a full-time writer, McDonald had a variety of jobs working in libraries, bookstores, museums, and even as a park ranger.She was children's librarian, working at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis Public Library and Adams Memorial Library in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. She has received various awards for her storytelling including a Judy Blume Contemporary Fiction Award, a Children's Choice Book award, and a Keystone State Award among others. McDonald has also written many picture books for younger children and continues to write. Her most recent work was the "Julie Albright" series of books for the American public. She currently resides in Sebastopol, California with her husband and pets.
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Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-Judy Moody is back in this fifth book in the series by Megan McDonald (Candlewick, 2004). Judy's third-grade class is studying the human body, which opens the door for her medical aspirations. She operates on a zucchini, gets to have a cast put on her unbroken arm, brings her brother's old umbilical cord for show-and-tell, and gets caught in a cloning practical joke. Sibling rivalry abounds between her and Stink. Friendships are tested, and imaginations run wild. Children will empathize with Judy's desire to stay home sick, and her disappointment when real illness makes this experience less than she had imagined. McDonald has tucked in a fair amount of medical information, which occasionally slows the plot a bit but gives readers the background to understand some of the puns and misinformation that add to the story's humor. This book-on-tape is narrated by Kate Forbes, who creates unique voices for each character and reads the story with delightful expression and excellent pacing. There's plenty here to amuse young listeners, and fans of the series will not be disappointed.-Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary School, Federal Way, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Judy Moody, M.D.: The Doctor Is In! by Megan McDonald, illus. by Peter Reynolds, brings back the irrepressible heroine as her class studies the human body. Taking a field trip to the hospital, performing an operation on a zucchini (they first "take the Hippo oath [and] swear to the Hippo guy [to do their] doctor best") and getting tonsillitis are just a few of Judy's adventures this time around. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Excerpts
Excerpts
PLIP! Judy Moody woke up. Drip, drip, drip went rain on the roof. Blip, blip, blip went drops on the window. Not again! It had been raining for seven days straight. Bor-ing! She, Judy Moody, was sick and tired of rain. Judy put her head under the pillow. If only she was sick. Being sick was the greatest. You got to stay home and drink pop for breakfast and eat toast cut in special strips and watch TV in your room. You got to read Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, mysteries all day. And you got to eat yummy cherry cough drops. Hey! Maybe Cherry Ames was named after a cough drop! Judy took out her mom's old Cherry Ames book and popped a cough drop in her mouth anyway. "Get up, Lazybones!" said Stink, knocking on her door. "Can't," said Judy. "Too much rain." "What?" "Never mind. Just go to school without me." "Mom, Judy's skipping school!" Stink yelled. Mom came into Judy's room. "Judy, honey. What's wrong?" "I'm sick. Of rain," she whispered to Mouse. "Sick? What's wrong? What hurts?" asked Mom. "My head, for one thing. From all that noisy rain." "You have a headache?" "Yes. And a sore throat. And a fever. And a stiff neck." "That's from sleeping with the dictionary under your pillow," said Stink. "To ace your spelling test." "Is not." "Is too!" "See, look. My tongue's all red." Judy stuck out her Cherry-Ames-cough-drop tongue at Stink. Mom felt Judy's head. "You don't seem to have a fever." "Faker," said Stink. "Come back in five minutes," said Judy. "I'll have a fever by then." "Faker, faker, faker," said Stink. If only she had measles. Or chicken pox. Or . . . MUMPS! Mumps gave you a headache. Mumps gave you a stiff neck and a sore throat. Mumps made your cheeks stick out like Humpty Dumpty. Judy pushed the cough drop into her cheek and made it stick out, Humpty-Dumpty style. "Mumps!" said Dr. Judy. "I think I have the mumps! For real!" "Mumps!" said Stink. "No way. You got a shot for that. A no-mumps shot. We both did. Didn't we, Mom?" "Yes," said Mom. "Stink's right." "Maybe one mump got through." "Sounds like somebody doesn't want to go to school today," said Mom. "Can I? Can I stay home, Mom? I promise I'll be sick. All day." "Let's take your temperature," said Mom. She took the thermometer out of the case. "Cat hair?" said Mom. "Is this cat hair on the thermometer?" "She's always making Mouse stick out her tongue and taking the cat's temperature," said Stink. Mom shook her head and went to wash off the thermometer. When she came back, she took Judy's temperature. "It's 98.6," said Mom. "Normal!" "Faker, fakey, not-sick, big fat faker," said Stink. "At least my temperature's normal," said Judy. "Even if my brother isn't." "Better get dressed," said Mom. "Don't want to be late." "Stink? You're a rat fink. Stink Rat-Fink Moody. That's what I'll call you from now on." "Well, you'll have to call me it at school 'cause you don't get to stay home." Judy stuck out her cherry-red, no-mumps tongue at Stink. She was down in the dumps. She had a bad case of the grumps. The no-mumps Moody Monday blues. She, Judy Moody, felt like Mumpty Dumpty! Mumpty Dumpty without a temperature, that is. Excerpted from The Doctor Is In! 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.