Judy Moody Gets Famous! Read Online Free

piano-playing chicken.
    For the grand finale, everyone paraded their pets, marching in a circle.
    “What a great contest this year,” said the pet store lady. “I’d like to thank all of you for coming. Now, for the prizes,” said the pet store lady. “If I call your pet’s name, please step into the center of the circle.”
    A man stepped up to the circle with a big camera.
    “The newspaper! They’re here,” Judy announced.
    “In third place, Suzy Chang, the tooth-brushing ferret.”
    Please-please-please,
Judy wished silently.
    “Second place is Mouse Moody, the cat who makes toast!”
    “That’s you!” said Frank and Rocky, pushing Judy into the circle.
    “Mouse, we won!” cried Judy. “Second place!” At last her time had come. At last her chance to be famous.
    “And first prize goes to Mozart Puckett, the piano-playing chicken! Let’s hear it for all the famous pets!”
    The crowd went wild. Each pet got a blue ribbon to wear and a gift certificate to Fur & Fangs. The winners lined up to have a picture taken! Judy was on the end, holding Mouse, but Mouse squirmed and leaped out of Judy’s arms. Flash! Judy blinked. The newspaper man snapped a picture faster than lightning.
    “Thank you, everybody! That’s it!” yelled the pet store lady.
    “That’s it?” asked Judy.
    Judy’s fifteen minutes of fame lasted only fifteen seconds. Fifteen seconds of fame, and she, Judy Moody, had blinked.
    The following morning, Judy ran outside to fetch the paper. She whipped through the pages. Her heart beat faster.
    “Here it is!” Judy cried. She could not believe her eyes. There were David Puckett and Emily Chang with mile-wide smiles. There were Mozart the chicken and Suzy the ferret.

    “Let me see!” said Stink. “Hey, there’s Mouse!”
    “I’m not even in the picture!” yelled Judy.
    “There you are!” said Stink, pointing to an elbow.
    “I’m not famous!” Judy wailed. “I’m an elbow!”
    “Let’s see,” said Dad. He read the caption. “Blah-blah,
winners of the Famous Pet Contest,
blah-blah. It says your name, right here. See?
Mouse and Judy . . . Muddy.
”
    “WHAT!” said Judy. “
Muddy
? Let me see.”
    “Judy Muddy! That’s a good one,” said Stink.
    “Judy Muddy! No one will ever know it’s me,” said Judy.
    “We’ll know,” said Dad.
    Judy frowned. “I guess your name is Mud,” Dad said, laughing.
    “ROAR!” said Judy.
    “At least it says Mouse won the contest,” Mom said. She cut out the picture and hung it up on the fridge.
    “Great,” said Judy. “Even my cat’s in the Moody Hall of Fame.”
    Mom kissed the top of Judy’s head. “And you have one very famous elbow.”

Judy studied her famous elbow in the mirror. She squished her elbow into a wrinkled happy face. She squinched her elbow into a mad face.
    If Judy ever hoped to be more famous than an elbow, she needed some help. Judy called all members of the Toad Pee Club. “Meet at the clubhouse,” she told everybody.
    Rocky, Frank, and Judy crowded into the blue tent in her backyard. Last was Stink, who carried Toady, their mascot, in one hand, and walked while reading a book.
    “Stink, you better watch out or you’ll renew your membership.”

    “OH!” said Stink. He tossed Toady into the bucket before the toad famous for peeing in people’s hands did it again.
    “Now,” said Judy, “how can we make me famous?”
    “Let’s think,” Rocky said.
    “Stink, you’re not thinking,” said Judy.
    “Getting famous is boring,” said Stink, leafing through his book.
    “Stink, what book could be soooooooooo interesting?”
    Stink held up the
Guinness Book of World Records.
Judy looked at Frank. Frank looked at Rocky. Rocky looked at Judy. “Brainstorm!” the three yelled at the same time. Then they cracked up.
    “Stink, you are a genius. The secret to getting famous is right there in your hands.”
    Stink checked his hands.
    “Don’t you get it?” said Judy. “I could break a