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    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space
    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space
    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space
    Ebook72 pages28 minutes

    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space

    By Anna Branford and Elanna Allen

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    Is it possible to leave a piece of you wherever you go? Violet Mackerel thinks so in this fourth illustrated chapter book of a charming series.

    Violet Mackerel believes that wherever you leave something small, a tiny part of you gets to stay too—like how the little piece of green sea glass under the mattress at the beach house means that a little piece of Violet gets to stay on summer holiday.

    Violet’s theory is put to the test when Mama and Vincent announce some very special news: They are going to get married. And they are all going to move. Violet is excited for the wedding, but Dylan is angry about the move. Normally, it is nice to be inside with your family when there is a big noisy storm outside and there is pumpkin soup for dinner and something on TV about penguins. But it is hard to enjoy it when your brother is outside in the garden in a leaky tent.

    When Dylan won’t budge, the wedding preparations feel a bit sad. But just in time, Violet thinks of the perfect way to help Dylan feel better about moving. And her Theory of Leaving Small Things Behind is going to come in handy!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateSep 3, 2013
    ISBN9781442435933
    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space
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    Anna Branford

    Anna Branford was born on the Isle of Man and spent parts of her childhood in Africa and in Papua New Guinea. Now she lives in Melbourne, Australia, with a large black cat called Florence. She writes, drinks cups of tea in her garden, and makes dolls and other small things, which she sells at early morning markets. Anna is the author of the Violet Mackerel series. Visit her at AnnaBranford.com.

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    • 4/5
      My six-year-old daughter hasn't quite worked her way up to the likes of Ramona Quimby -- a series I loved as a kid -- so I was looking for books with very short chapters and illustrations on almost every page to hold her attention. This one fills the gap. I bought the box set and sure enough, she asked for the first chapter of the next one as soon as we'd finished this, which is what I had been hoping for in reading material. It's interesting turning to middle grade fiction for the first time since reading stuff published in the 70s and 80s -- middle grade fiction now features much more diverse families -- in this case, broken and blended.
    • 4/5
      It is so lovely to find new small chapter books, just perfect for the children at my primary school. Violet Mackerel’s Personal Space is one of these. And what a sad-happy story. Violet’s mom has decided to remarry and the whole family will move. That’s two sad things for children to deal with but the author, Anna Branford, deals with the sad things in a way that will make the reader feel happy when she finishes the story. That’s so nice for children who have to deal with sad things every day.

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    Violet Mackerel's Personal Space - Anna Branford

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    Violet Mackerel is on a summer holiday at the beach with her sister, Nicola; her brother, Dylan; her mama; and her mama’s boyfriend, Vincent. It is nearly the end of the holiday, and Violet is wishing it was still the beginning.

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    At the beach house where they have been staying there are bunk beds. Violet has been sleeping on the bottom bunk. She has tucked a sheet under the mattress of the top bunk and dangled it down, so it is a small personal space of her own. You can’t do that with an ordinary bed like the one at Violet’s normal house. It has to be a bunk bed.

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    It has been quite a good holiday. Violet likes Vincent making pancakes for everyone each morning. She likes going for walks to look in rock pools and having the sound of the sea in her ears all the time. She likes it after dinner when they roll up their pants for an evening paddle and their pants get wet anyway and no one minds. And since no one has to get up at any particular time, no one has to go to bed at any particular time either, so they sit up late on the veranda, chatting and burning citronella candles to keep the mosquitoes away.

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    On the last morning of the holiday, everyone puts all their things back in their suitcases. Violet takes the sheet down from the bunk bed and folds it up. One minute it looks as if her family actually does live in the beach house, and the next minute it looks as if they have never stayed there at all.

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    Mama says, Before we go, let’s all have one final check and make sure we haven’t left anything behind. So everyone has a look behind the couch and in the little cupboard in the bathroom and under the coffee table. Violet thinks she might pull up the corner of her mattress and have a look under that. There is a row of

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