Third grader Judy Moody is in a first-day-of-school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the "Me Collage."

When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

It's no secret that Judy wants to be like Elizabeth Blackwell, the 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 c loning experiment that may create double trouble for Judy and her friends.

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

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.

The lucky penny in Judy Moody's pocket sure does seem to be working, because she can't stop winning at bowling, spelling, the unbeatable Prize Claw, everything! But when her lucky penny has an unlucky accident in a porcelain bowl of ucky, blucky, unluck, she wonders if her coin's magic has gone down the toilet for good.

"After Grandma Lou explains to her what a Bucket List is, Judy Moody, the Queen of Lists, speeds off to make a Bucket List of her own. She'd better move fast if she wants to check everything off...before fourth grade!" -- Back cover.