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ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 1997 by Tor Seidler
Illustrations copyright © 1997 by Jon Agee
Originally published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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The text for this book is set in Olympian.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in TK.
Jacket illustration copyright © 1997 by Jon Agee
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition October 2014
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seidler, Tor.
Mean Margaret / Tor Seidler ; illustrated by Jon Agee. — First Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition.
p. cm
Originally published by HarperCollins in 1997.
Summary: “Two-year-old Margaret is mean. She’s loud. She’s rude. But two woodchucks take in Margaret as their own, despite her horrible tendencies. Will Margaret ever be nice?”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4814-1014-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4814-1016-8 (eBook)
[1. Behavior—Fiction. 2. Toddlers—Fiction. 3. Parent and child—Fiction. 4. Human-animal relationships—Fiction.
5. Woodchuck—Fiction.] I. Agee, Jon, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.S45526Me 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2014007154