Judy moody get famous

Who’s Who
How Do You Spell Famous?
The Moody Hall of Fame
Infamous
Fame Is the Pits
Famous Pet Contest
Broken Records
Broken Parts
Body Parts
Judy Moody and Jessica Flinch
Judy Moody, Superhero
10 Things You May Not Know About Megan
McDonald
10 Things You May Not Know About Peter H.
Reynolds


Judy Moody marched into third grade on a plain
old Thursday, in a plain old ordinarymood. That
was before Judy got stung by the Queen Bee.
Judy sat down at her desk, in the front row next
to Frank Pearl.
“Hey, did you see Jessica Finch?” asked Frank
in a low voice.
“Yeah, so? I see her every day. She sits cattycornered
behind me.”
“She’s wearing a crown.”
Judy turned to look at Jessica, then whispered to
Frank, “Where’d she get that? Burger Barn?”
“I don’t know,” saidFrank. “Ask her. She says
it’s bejeweled.”
“Well, it looks be-dumb, if you ask me,” said
Judy, though secretly she admired the sparkling
ruby-like gems.
“Hey, are those real rubies?” Judy asked Jessica.
“They’re costume jewelry,” Jessica said.
“Who are you dressing up as? The Queen of
England?”
“No, I’m the Queen Bee,” said Jessica. “I won
the N. V. Spelling Bee on Saturday.”

“The envyspelling bee?” Judy asked. Judy
didn’t envy anybody who had to spell long words
into a microphone with a million and one people
staring bug-eyed at her. She knew those people
were silently yelling FLUB IT UP because they
wanted their own kid to win.
“Not envy. N. V. As in Northern Virginia.”
“Oh,” said Judy. “Is that where you got the
crown?”
“It’s a tiara,” said Jessica. “T-I-A-R-A. Atiara
is a fancy crown like the Queen of England
wears. Queen of the Bee has to know tons of
definitions.”
“What word did you win for?” Judy asked.
“Frank wants to know,” she added, in case Jessica
thought she was interested.
“Artichoke. It’s a fourth-grade word.”
Artichoke! Judy could barely spell meatloaf!
Give me S-C-I-E-N-C-E any day, she thought.
Was that the rule? I before E? Or wasit E before
I?
“I have spelling posters in my room at home,”
said Jessica. “With all the rules. I even have a
glow-in-the-dark one.”
“That would give me spelling nightmares. I’ll
take my glow-in-the-dark skeleton poster any
day. It shows all two hundred and six bones in the
body!”
“Judy,” said Mr. Todd. “The back of your head
is not nearly as interesting as the front. And so far
I’veseen more of it today than I’d like.”
“Sorry,” said Judy, facing front again.
Jessica tapped Judy and passed her a folded
page from the newspaper. Right there, SMACKDAB
in the MIDDLE of the newspaper for the
whole world to see, was a picture of Jessica
Finch. It even said LOCAL GIRL BECOMES
QUEEN BEE in big fat headline letters.
“My dad says I got my fifteen minutes of
fame,” Jessicawhispered to the back of Judy’s
head.
Judy did not turn around. She was green with
N-V. Jessica A. Finch, Queen of the Dictionary,
Class 3T, was famous! Judy could not help thinking
how stupendous it would feel to be able to
spell better than meatloaf and be the Queen Bee
and wear a tiara. To get her own picture in the paper!
But she, Judy Moody, felt about as famous as a
pencil.
As soon asJudy got home from school, she decided
to memorize the dictionary. But she got
stuck on aardwolf. Three lousy words. Who ever
heard of an aardwolf anyway? Silly old termiteeater.
It had a pointy little head and beady little
eyes and a pinched-up face that looked just
like . . . Jessica A. Finch! Jessica Aardwolf Finch
might be famous, but she was also a silly old
termite-eater.
SinceJessica had become Queen Bee with the
word artichoke, Judy decided to skip the dictionary
and spell all the vegetables in the refrigerator
instead.
“Do we have any artichokes?” Judy asked her
mother, opening the door of the fridge.
“Since when did you start liking artichokes?”
asked Mom.
“Don’t worry, I’m not going to eat them or
anything,” said Judy. “It’s for Spelling.”
“Spelling?” Stink...