The Worry Tree

  Copyright © 2007 by Marianne Musgrove

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  First published in the United States in 2008 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC

  Originally published in Australia in 2007 by Random House Australia

  eISBN 9781429939379

  First eBook Edition : October 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Musgrove, Marianne.

  The Worry Tree / Marianne Musgrove.—1st American ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Juliet is a worrier, but when constant bickering between her and her

  younger sister leads Juliet to move into her own bedroom, she discovers the Worry

  Tree her grandmother used as a girl to relieve her own concerns.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8791-8 / ISBN-10: 0-8050-8791-5

  [1. Worry—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Grandmothers—Fiction.

  4. Family life—Australia—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.

  6. Australia—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M9693Wor 2008 [Fic]—dc22 2007046944

  First American Edition—2008