Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot
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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