Stink : the Incredible Shrinking Kid
Kirkus Reviews Judy Moody's little brother Stink, a.k.a. James, finally gets his turn. He uses it to obsess about his height-especially after he loses a quarter of an inch between morning and night (as does everyone, he later learns). He also records unfortunate incidents with hair-gel dye, the class newt and a sink drain, and […]
Stink and the World's Worst Suiper-stinky Sneakers
School Library Journal Gr 1-3 – Stink Moody, Judy's little brother, is sure he can win the Super-Stinky Sneaker Contest because he has such a supersensitive nose. When his class goes to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, the second grader is able to identify every smell in the Everybody Stinks exhibit, from bad […]
Judy Moody & Stink : the Holly Joliday
Children's Literature Judy Moody made a T.P. list of what she wanted for Christmas. That is "a Totally Presents list" created on toilet paper, the only thing long enough to contain her whole list. Her younger brother, Stink, had a very short list. He wanted snow. When the new mailman, Jack Frost, tells Stink that […]
Stink and the Incredible Super-galactic Jawbreaker
School Library Journal Gr 1-3-Judy Moody's seven-year-old brother is back with new super-galactic adventures. Stink buys the World's Biggest Jawbreaker and slurps, sloops, and shloops it all day until in one crunch, it is G-O-N-E. Disappointed that his jaw isn't broken, he decides to use his new letter-writing skills to complain to the company. He […]
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express
School Library Journal Gr 1-3- Stink is back. This time, he and friends Webster and Sophie are working on a cereal-box re-creation of the Great Wall of China when the youngsters discover some mysterious guinea pigs hiding in one of the boxes. They figure out that the animals escaped from the local pet store. Store […]
Judy Moody & Stink : the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt
Children's Literature Judy Moody and her brother Stink are back in a spine-tingling story about pirates and hidden treasure. When Judy and Stink's mom and dad decide to take a few days vacation on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina, Judy and Stink are prepared to be bored. They are not prepared for a blustery ferry […]
Stink : Solar System Superhero
School Library Journal PreS-Gr 3—In this installment, Judy Moody's brother sticks up for Pluto, as it has unfairly (in his estimation) been demoted to dwarf planet status. Stink, defender of all things small, accepts the challenge of trying to convince his classmates that Pluto should still be considered a real planet while his nemesis, Riley […]
Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk
Kirkus Reviews An all-zombie-all-the-time zombiefest, featuring a bunch of grade-school kids, including protagonist Stink and his happy comrades. This story covers the few days preceding the much-anticipated Midnight Zombie Walk, when Stink and company will take to the streets in the time-honored stiff-armed, stiff-legged fashion. McDonald signals her intent on page one: "Stink and Webster […]
Stink and the Ultimate Thumb-wrestling Smackdown
Stink Moody, family brain, brings home a report card that isn’t perfect? Yikes! Time for him to get into fighting shape and beat back that U for Unsatisfactory in gym! A scan of the sports channel leads to a knock-out find: world-class thumb wrestling, with tricky moves like Snake in the Grass and Santa’s Little […]
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Library Journal Published posthumously, Stuntz's (law, Harvard Univ.) new work is a bracing critique of American criminal jurisprudence. He argues that because of harsh sentences, the few jury trials, poor policing methods, and misguided court decisions, the United States has a wasteful and destructive criminal justice system. Two things stand out in Stuntz's book: the […]