Megan McDonald

When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.

It's Backwards Day, so Judy has decided to become Queen of the Good Mood for one entire week, the big question is can she do it?

Judy Moody's new friendship with Amy Namey causes problems with her old friends and the school project they are working on together.

Jessica is looking forward to her birthday party and hopes that her present will be a pet potbellied pig, but when she can't find any signs of a pig present at home, and then fights with Judy, she worries her birthday will be a disaster.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.

When Stink discovers that Pluto has been downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, he launches a campaign in his classroom to restore its status to that of a full-fledged member of the solar system.

When Judy offers to assist the Amazing Mr. Magic, also known as Rocky, during his magic show, her clumsiness spoils his tricks causing tension between the friends, but maybe Rocky's magic can mend their friendship.

After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom.

As Hurrican Elmer hits, Judy, Stink, and the entire Moody clan hunker down and ride out the storm, but when the power goes out, Grandma Lou proposes some activities to pass the time in the dark.

When Judy learns that some of her ancestors lived in England and possibly related to the Queen, her nemesis Jessica Finch finds more surprise relatives that Judy wishes she could hide in a dungeon somewhere.