Megan McDonald

After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.

Stink may be a super science freak, but even Dr. Stinkelstein is feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources.

When Stink's parents win an aquarium sleepover, he and his two friends enjoy a scavenger hunt before trying to fall asleep while worrying about the frankensquid on the loose.

As Hurricane Elmer hits, Judy, Stink, and the entire Moody clan hunker down and ride out the storm, but when the power goes out, Grandma Lou proposes some activities to pass the time in the dark.

"Look up! Look out! A comet is coming, a comet is coming! Stink is camped out in the backyard with his sister, Judy, and he can't wait to lay eyes on P/2015 OZ4, also known as the Sherman-Holm Comet. But then news of an asteroid hitting Russia reaches Stink, and suddenly he's feeling squeamish (and squash-ish) about close encounters of the outer-space kind. Will donning an aluminum-foil cape and building a bunker in the basement help keep him safe?...

The town's annual Turkey Trot race and festival is coming up, and Judy and Stink are training to win.

These buddies, a rabbit and a chipmunk, are sick and tired of being good. They want to know what it's like to be baddies, and they want thrills and excitement, but they're going to need some experience making mischief. Next thing you know, they're shelving books in un-alphabetical order and borrowing markers without asking, and that's just the warm-up. In no time they'll be hardened criminals.

When it is "Backward Day," Judy must turn her usual sour mood upside down and be happy and nice for a change.

When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

A treasury of nose-wrinkling facts, quizzes, recipes and trivia includes entries about how a group of skunks is called a "stench," how snail slime was once an ingredient in cough syrup and more.