03 Club Snub

Club Snub The next day before going to school, Judy rummaged through her top drawer, looking for her old purple watch. It still worked! She wore it right next to her new red striped one. She looked around for a clipboard, but she couldn't find one. So she stuck a Grouchy pencil behind her ear and went to school. "There's a pencil in your hair," said Rocky. "I know," Judy said. "Amy Namey says I can help her with her newspaper. A good reporter should have a pencil ready at all times." "How come you're wearing two watches?" asked Frank.

"The better to tell time with," said Judy in a Red-Riding-Hood-and-the-Wolf voice. "No, really," said Frank.

"Amy Namey has one watch that tells regular time, and one that tells France time. Just like Nellie Bly, Daredevil Reporter. Amy says Nellie Bly always kept one watch on the time it was at home in New York. The other watch she changed to the time of England or Italy or France-— wherever she was." "Whatever," said Rocky. "How come Amy's other watch is on France time?" asked Frank. "I don't know," said Judy. "I'll just have to get the scoop, won't I?" She took the pencil from her ear and wrote herself a note. Just like a real reporter would do. "Maybe I'll ask her when she comes to our class right after morning recess to tell us a top-secret scoop that only Mr. Todd knows."

"Wait. She's coming here? To Mr. Todd's room?" asked Rocky. "She's not going to be in our class, is she?" asked Frank. "No. She just has a big fat secret to tell us." "How do you know?" Rocky asked. "I know," said Judy. "Or... maybe I can ask her when I go over to her house to have a meeting of our new club." "What new club?" asked Rocky. "What new club?" asked Frank. "The My-Name-Is-a-Poem Club," said Judy. "Can we be in the club?" asked Frank. "It's for people all over the world who have names that rhyme. Like Judy Moody. Amy Namey. Hello! Frank does not rhyme with Pearl.

Rocky does not rhyme with Zang." "No fair," said Rocky. "We can't help it that our names don't rhyme." "I didn't make the rules," said Judy. "What if I change my name to Earl? Earl the Pearl rhymes." Judy and Rocky cracked up. "Then we'd have to call you Earl," said Rocky. "That would be weird." "Okay. So keep calling me Frank and come to the Toad Pee Club meeting on Saturday morning. Don't go to that rhyming girl's house." "What do you mean?" asked Judy. "Didn't Stink tell you? We're having a really big, important meeting of the Toad Pee Club," said Frank. "How come?"

"We want to enter Toady in a race they're having at the pet store that morning. Fur& Fangs. You can win a tarantula." "Stink told you this?" asked Judy. "Uh-huh." "It's a girl tarantula named Trudy," added Frank. "It's a painted tarantula and has orange stripes." "And it has eight eyes, and fangs, and it keeps away robbers," said Rocky. "Robbers!" said Judy. "There aren't any robbers around here."