01 The Lucky Penny

MEGAN McDONALD JUDY MOODY and the Bad Luck Charm

The Lucky Penny She, Judy Moody, had a penny. Not just any penny. Not a regular old Abe Lincoln penny. A lucky penny. No lie! Judy and her family took Grandma Lou out to breakfast at the Two Chicks on a Raft Diner. Stink ordered— what else?— silver-dollar pancakes. Judy said, "I'll have the special— two chicks on a raft. And some moo juice." "Moo juice?" asked Stink, sitting up. Judy pointed to all the funny names for food on the menu. "Two eggs on toast. And milk to drink."

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"Chocolate moo for me, please," said Stink. "So anyway," Judy told her family, "Grandma Lou took me roller-skating at Mount Trashmore, right?" "And we rolled right past one of those penny machines," said Grandma Lou. "And she gave me this way-old penny she had from the 1970s—" "Waayy old," said Grandma Lou, smiling. "And we put it in the machine and —check it out!" Judy held up a penny with a four-leaf clover inside a horseshoe that said MY LUCKY PENNY. MT. TRASHMORE, VA. "That's not a lucky penny," said Stink.

"That's a squished penny. Weird. It looks like it got run over." "It's still a lucky penny, Stink," said Judy. "Says so right on it, see?" "How much did you pay for that?" Stink asked. "Fifty-one cents," said Judy. "Fifty-one cents! You paid fifty-one cents for a penny?" "A lucky penny," said Judy. "It's a special penny," said Mom. "A keepsake." "A souvenir," said Dad. "I'm so going to start collecting these," said Judy, rubbing her penny. "It'll be my new thing." "I thought your new thing was collecting banana stickers," said Stink. "And Popsicle

sticks with jokes on them." "Stink? Do you have to know everything about me?" "Kids," Dad warned. "Don't start." While they waited for their food, Judy got an idea. She had seen a machine in the front lobby. A way-cool machine full of something else she collected. Stuffed animals! "Grandma Lou?" Judy asked. "Do you have any quarters?" Grandma Lou dug down to the bottom of her purse. "Four. Will that do?" "Yes. Thanks, Grandma Lou!" "Are you gonna smash quarters, too?" Stink asked. "No, I just want to play the Super Claw," said Judy. She pointed to the glass case. "Forget it," said Stink. "It's super