Independent Reading Response #5

Judy Moody was in a Mood

Response #5: Pg 112 -159

Response Type: Quotation

The book that I have been reading is call “Judy Moody was in a Mood” written by Megan McDonald. This book is about a girl who is very exciting to do a project which is to create a collage about her. She spends most of the time with her brother and her friends to finish her project. Finally, she finished making the collage and tried to bring it to the school, but a bad event happened to her. However, the happening creates her collage even better. Here are some quotations that I found while I’m reading.

·“I want to be a doctor like Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor! She started her own hospital. She knew how to operate and put together body parts and everything” – This quote is from chapter 2, page 39. I like this quote, because she has a dream what she wants to be in the future. Also she respects Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor. She is motivated by this woman and wants to be the doctor For me, I do not even have an aim right now and also I have no one to respect. Therefore, when I read this parts, I was little jealous at her and felt I have to find something that I want to do in the future. I also learned a history about the first woman doctor from this sentence, so I like this sentence.

·“It’s okay. At least it didn’t get run over by a bus in a tornado.” - The sentence is from chapter 9, page 146. This is when her brother dropped juice on her final collage. Actually, she doesn’t want her brother to touch her collage, because it is her perfect project, but she had many things to carry, so she asked her father and brother to bring it to school. However, her brother did that accidentally, and both her brother and father said sorry to her a lot. What she said after she saw her wet collage, she said it is okay. Actually, she will get angry, but this time, she accepted their deed. When I read this part, I felt that she grew little bit, because after that event, she used that speck of juice to make one drawing. I was so proud of her and it disposed me to see her collage.

I enjoyed this book, because I learned how Judy Moody, the main character’s personality is like and how she manage her time for her project. I like her personality which is active and imaginative. She always goes outside to find something interesting with her brother and her friends. When I was young, I always go out side and play with my friends as her, so I feel an affinity with her in someway.

Independent Reading Response #4

Judy Moody was in a Mood

Response #4: P1-111

Response Type: 5.Question

The second book that I am reading for this quarter is Judy Moody’s series called Judy Moody was in a Mood written by Megan McDonald and illustrated by Peter Reynolds. Judy Moody is the protagonist of this book who is just started the third grade and the first project that she gets from the teacher is to make the collage. In the collage, she has to put some information about herself such as her hobby, happiest thing, and worst thing. So far, I read 111 pages and I learned that Judy is kind of selfish and strange girl and I found a part that I don't understand.

I don’t quite understand why Judy Moody didn’t like to paste her cat, Mouse’s picture on her collage when she had to put her family’s picture. When I read the part which Judy said, “We need a new pet. I have to pick my favorite pet.” If I were she I would choose Mouse. She was the only one pet in her family and even though she had some weak personality, she always stayed with them and spent her life with them. I thought that they don’t need to have a new pet to choose for collage. And I also feel weird when Judy’s parents don’t complain about buying a new pet for the collage. What her father says to Judy was “Let’s take a ride over the pet store. I’m not saying we’ll get a sloth, but you might like to have some goldfishes.” Actually, in my family, my parents don’t allow me to buy a new pet if I have one. The reason is we already love the pet that we have and if I buy new, it waste money. Also if we have time to buy a pet, it is better to finish the collage. Therefore, I felt that Judy’s parents are little bit kind to their child and Judy is a little selfish girl. Finally, they buy a pet called Jaws which is Venus trapfly. It is a flower and it catches flies by spreading out its fragrance.

As follows, I read more than half pages and I don’t quite understand the relationship between the title and the story, so by continue to read, I want to get some ideas why this title is “Judy Moody was in a Mood”. And also I can’t wait what happened to the end, so I will read it as soon as possible. I recommend this book to everyone who likes to read about the school life fiction. If I can, I want to read other books of Judy Moody’s series.