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    “One, two, three!” Stink pinned Webster for three counts. At last, Shark Hammersmash had taken down the mighty T. Rex with his bare thumb. Stink had played his best game ever. Thumbs down.
    “Good match, T. Rex,” said Stink.
    “Great match! I never even saw you coming. What was that? A double-reverse Snake in the Grass? An upside-down sideways Tsunami Smash?”
    “Just a little move I made up called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Thumb.”
    “Wow!” said Webster. “You should enter the Thumb-Wrestling Olympics or something. You could get into the Thumb-Wrestling Hall of Fame with that move!”
    Skunk held out the ketchup-bottle microphone. “So, Shark Hammersmash, you, and you alone, took down the mighty T. Rex. Tell us sports fans out here. How do you feel?”
    “Absolutely, positively, thumb-tastic!” said Stink.

     

     

     

     

     

 
    is the author of the popular series starring Judy Moody. She says, “Once, while I was visiting a class, the kids chanted, ‘Stink! Stink! Stink!’ as I entered the room. In that moment, I knew that Stink had to have a series all his own.” Megan McDonald lives in California.
    is the illustrator of all the Judy Moody books. He says, “Stink reminds me of myself growing up: dealing with a sister prone to teasing and bossing around — and having to get creative in order to stand tall beside her.” Peter H. Reynolds lives in Massachusetts.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
     
    Text copyright © 2011 by Megan McDonald
Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Peter H. Reynolds
Interior illustrations created by Matt Smith
     
    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
     
    First electronic edition 2011
     
    The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
     
    McDonald, Megan.
Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown / Megan McDonald ; [illustration by Peter H. Reynolds]. — 1st U.S. ed.
p.  cm.
Summary: 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.
ISBN 978-0-7636-4346-1 (hardcover)
[1. Sports — Fiction. 2. Schools — Fiction. 3. Family life — Fiction.]  I. Reynolds, Peter, date.  II. Title.
PZ7.M478419Ssx 2011
[Fic] — dc22    2010039176
     
    ISBN 978-0-7636-5457-3 (electronic)
     
    The illustrations were created digitally.
     
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