01 Rhyme Time

JUDY MOODY Around the World in 8 1/2 Days

Rhyme Time The girl had a notebook and a clipboard. The girl wore a blue plaid skirt like a school uniform, and not one but TWO watches. The girl had a pencil behind her ear. The girl looked very noticeable in her blue-green glasses. The girl came over to Judy Moody's lunch table and plopped herself down right beside Judy's friends Rocky and Frank. She, NOT Judy Moody, looked like she was in a reporter mood. Who was this important-looking, glasses-wearing girl, anyway? Judy wondered. "Amy Namey, Girl Reporter," said the girl.

"What's the scoop?" "Um... Screamin' Mimi's chocolate mud?" asked Judy. "Not the ice-cream kind of scoop," said the girl. "The story kind of scoop. I'm a reporter," she said. "Like Nellie Bly, Daredevil Reporter." She, Judy Moody, could not believe her ears. Frank asked, "Is that like Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Doctor?"

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Judy leaned in closer. "Check!" said the girl. She wrote something on her clipboard. "I'm from Ms. Valentine's class, 3V. Can I ask you a few questions? For my newspaper?" "You have your own paper?" asked Frank Pearl. "Sure!" said the girl. Just then, Super-Important Girl Reporter held out a ketchup-bottle microphone. "What's your favorite school lunch?" she asked. "Quesadilla pizza, popcorn chicken, or French toast sticks?" "French toast is breakfast," said Judy. "Pizza!" screamed Rocky and Frank at the same time. "Check!" said the girl. She checked the paper

on her clipboard. "I pack my lunch," said Judy. "How many times a week should the cafeteria have pizza?" she asked. "Three," said Frank. "Five!" said Rocky. "Every day! With extra cheese!" "Check!" said the girl. Who was this list-checking, clipboard-carrying Pizza Reporter, anyway? And why were Rocky and Frank, Judy's best-ever friends, talking to her? "You can't really get us pizza every day for lunch," said Judy. "Why not?" asked the girl. "My mom knows the lunch ladies. Besides, it's a free country."