Diary

Dear diary,

My name is Jimmy. Today i would like to tell you about my journey to the jungle near the equator of South America. The temprature here is very hot and the humidity is very high, so I can hardly breath.
I'm here with my friends Amanda, Rosa, Larry and a group of scientists.We are going to search for the Mysteria and some other special plants and flowers.
There are a lot of dangerous animals in here and I'm a little afraid of them.
One day when i was washing myself in the pool, i saw a crocodile that almost bite my leg. It was very frightening situation and i got out of the pool quickly.
Another dangerous adventure which i would like to tell you about happened few days after that: my friend Larry wanted to sea a bird's nest, so he raised his hand to a branch to pull himself nearer, suddenly a Boa wrapped itself around Larry.
I ran to the camp to ask for help than i didn't see my steps and i fell into a pit.
Finally the whole party came, they could hardly find me because the whole could not be seen but doctor Stewart rescued me.
By the way, don't worry about Larry because the snake that was twisted around him run away from him.

As you can understand leaving in the jungle is not so simple...

Question

Questions about "The rain forest"

1. How did the children know what to do when they had troubles in the jungle?
2. Is it a real story or is it based on a real story?
3. What is the most dramatic adventure in the jungle?
4. How did the parakeets understand human language?
5. How did Jimmy fill when he found the Mysteria?
   

The Setting

The story takes place in the U.S.A.

The setting of the story is in various places. The main places where the story takes place are Judy's house and the school were she study.

Judy's house has two floors, the house is surrounded by a groomed garden. The house has a regular structure with kitchen, three rooms, bathroom and a big living room.

Judy spends most of her time in her private room.

Judy's school is close to her house. the school has a playground, big library, cafeteria and a lot of classrooms. The school is a public lower school.

Judy's favorite places in the school are the cafeteria and the library.

Judy's school Judy's house

Objects that are important to the story are:

1. The cornflakes, because when she its it she finds the mood ring.

2. Stink (Judy's brother), because he saw that the is not broken and that the ring is a real mood ring.

3. Judy's mood ring because with the mood ring she predict the moods of her friends, teachers and family.

The Main Character

The main character is Judy Moody. Judy Moody's appearance is not arranged.

Judy Moody, third-grader, big sister, avid collector, and future doctor . . . but most of all, famous for her many moods.

The plot: Judy woke up in the morning, she ate eight bowls of cereal and found a prize. The prize was a mood ring with a little piece of cardboard showing the colors of the moods. Judy put the mood ring on her finger and the ring turned black (black meant grouchy, impossible). Judy didn't understand why the ring was black, so she threw it to the bin because she thought it was broken. Her brother Stink found the ring in the bin and took it for himself. He put the ring on his finger and it turned green (green meant jealous, envy).
Judy came into Stink's room and saw him with her mood ring, she also saw that the ring was green and was working and unbroken. She wanted the ring back but Stink didn't give it to her and said he found it in the bin.
Judy said that she knows how to predict the future but for that she needs the ring on her finger, so Stink gave Judy the ring and she predicted many things.
One day she came to school with her mood ring and during the recess she showed it to all her friends and predicted their moods with the mood ring.

Judy moody's sites:

http://www.judymoody.com/

http://www.judymoody.com/mood_ring.htm

The Author: Megan McDonald

Megan McDonald was born on February 28, 1959 (age 50), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jhon and Mary Louise McDonald, The youngest of five girls.
She was awarded a B.A. 1981, and an M.L.S. in 1745.

Megan McDonald is married and lives in Sebastopol, California.

Because of her inability to express herself amidst her older siblings, McDonald's mother gave her a notebook to write her thoughts down in. This experience, along with the author's vivid imagination as a child, became the foundation for the young girl's later career as a children's author.
McDonald began her career as a children's librarian.

McDonald wrote The Judy Moody series follows the humorous adventures of a third-grader, Judy Moody. A spin-off series follows her younger brother, nicknamed Stink. McDonald wrote also few Picture books, Early readers books and noveles.

The genre of her The Judy Moody series is usually realistic fiction.
The audience of those books is usually young girls 9-13 years old.

Author's site

Othere sites with information about the author:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_McDonald
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/McDonald__Megan.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2638