McDonald has also written many picture books for younger children and continues to write.
Her most recent work was the Julie Albright series of books for American Girl.
Her first book, Is This a House for Hermit Crab?, came as a result of patrons asking her where to find a story she had told to children at a library.
[1] McDonald is married to Richard Haynes and lives in Sebastopol, California.
The Judy Moody series follows the humorous adventures of the title-character, an eight-year-old girl.