The Judy Moody Star Studded Collection

Megan McDonald. Candlewick Press (MA), $17.97 (460pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2563-4

And readers will be raring to get these books out of their boxes. About Megan McDonald's third-grade star (and Peter Reynolds's rendering of her), PW wrote, ""It's hard to imagine a mood Judy couldn't improve."" Now The Judy Moody Star-Studded Collection multiplies the fun threefold, packaging her first adventures together in reprinted paperbacks: Judy Moody; Judy Moody Gets Famous! and Judy Moody Saves the World! .

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