Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

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  Also available in an Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition.

  Book design by Lauren Rille

  The text for this book is set in Excelsior.

  The illustrations for this book are rendered in pencil with digital ink.

  First US Edition

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Branford, Anna.

  Violet Mackerel’s brilliant plot / Anna Branford ; illustrated by Elanna Allen. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.

  ISBN 978-1-4424-3585-8 (hc) — ISBN 978-1-4424-3586-5 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-4424-3587-2 (eBook)

  [1. Individuality—Fiction. 2. Imagination—Fiction. 3. Moneymaking projects—Fiction.] I. Allen, Elanna, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.B737384Vg 2012

  [Fic]—dc23 2011022584