08 Body Parts

Body Parts As soon as Judy got home, she unloaded the backpack and spread the dolls out on her bottom bunk. She, Doctor Judy Moody, was in an operating mood. On her bed was a doll that didn't talk or cry anymore, and one with no arms. There was a headless doll, and one that was bald. First Judy gave each of the dolls a bath. "I know just what I need," said Judy. "Body parts!" She dug out her collection: long arms, skinny arms, brown legs, pink legs, middles with bellybuttons, one bare foot, a thing that looked like a neck, and all sorts of heads — small

heads, fat heads, Barbie heads, bald heads! Judy emptied a whole bag of body parts onto her bed. "Rare!" Judy glued a red wig with yarn braids onto the doll with no hair and gave another one arms that bent. Judy bent the arm back and forth, back and forth, to test it out. "Boo!" said the doll each time Judy lifted her arm. "You don't scare me!" Judy told the doll. "And for you," she said to the headless doll. "A new head!" From all the heads on her bed, Judy chose one with brown hair and green eyes. "There you go," said Judy, popping on the new head. But when she turned the doll upside down to put some shoes on her, the doll's head flew off and bounced across the floor!

"Whoa!" said Judy, running after the head. "That won't work. Let's try this one. How would you like eyes that can close and open?" Judy twisted the new head onto the doll's neck and waved her up, down, up, down through the air a few times to watch the eyes open and close. "Voilà!" said Judy. She kissed the doll right on the nose. Next she dressed each doll in a blue-andwhite hospital gown she made from an old sheet, and gave each of them a paper bracelet printed with a name: Colby, Molly, Suzanna,

Laura. "Knock, knock," called Stink, pounding on her door. "Go away," said Judy. "Knock, knock!" said Stink. "Who's there?" said Judy. "I, Stink," said Stink. "I Stink who?" "I stink you should let me in your room," said Stink, letting himself in anyway. He peeked behind the blanket hanging over the bottom bunk. "Aaagh!" he yelled, jumping back in shock. "Those dolls! The hospital — you stole! Those are . . . those aren't . . . if Mom and Dad find out . . ."

"Stink, you promised you wouldn't tell." "Yeah, but . . ." Judy was making a tiny cast out of oogey wet newspaper. "Look, if you keep quiet, I'll let you help me." "It's a deal!" said Stink. Stink and Judy finished putting the cast on one of the doll's legs. When it dried, they painted it white and signed it with lots of madeup names. After that, they made a sling for another doll, with a scrap of cloth. On a different doll Doctor Judy put tattoo Band-Aids from her Band-Aid collection all over its legs, arms, and stomach. "Double cool!" said Stink. Last but not least was a rag doll made of cloth. Judy took a pink marker and drew a scar

from the doll's neck down to her bellybutton. Then she drew a red heart, broken in two. With black thread, she stitched the broken heart back together, hiding it under the doll's hospital gown. "Just like that girl Laura!" Stink said. When she was finished, Judy propped up all the dolls in a row on her bottom bunk and stood back to admire her work. She set her own doll, Hedda-Get-Betta, next to them. "Wow, you made them look really good!" said Stink.