Another day. Another mood. Meet Judy Moody at her moodiest-best, in this laugh-a-minute ninth adventure in the international bestselling series.

Judy is in a sleuthing, Nancy Drew kind of mood. So what’s a WBMS (world’s best mystery solver) to do? Go find a mystery, that’s what! And she doesn’t have to snoop for long: when Mr Chips, a beloved crime-dog-in-training, goes missing, Judy Drewdy and her chums, Agents Dills Pickle (Frank), Spuds Houdini (Rocky) and James Madagascar (Stink) find themselves in a real, honest-to-jeepers mystery. Watch out for red herrings – and clever references to classic Nancy Drew mysteries – as Eagle Eye Moody and company are hot on the case!

MEGAN MCDONALD

Megan has a BA in English from Oberlin College and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh. When she took her first writing class, her professor told her to go home and rip up all the poems she had ever written. He told her she was a prose writer. Megan went home and looked up “prose” in the dictionary, to find out what it meant! Before Megan became a writer, she worked in museums, libraries and bookstores, and also made a living as a storyteller and a park ranger. Megan now lives with her husband in Sebastopol, California.