Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano (But She Does Love Being in Recitals) by Peggy Gifford Read Free Book Online Page B

was so excited about all the applause she’d gotten that she didn’t know how she was going to fall asleep that night.
    She wondered if sometimes you had to feel very bad in order to feel very good.
    She rolled down the window and stuck her head out as far as she could without getting yelled at. The April air had that first-day-of-spring smell—a combination of old snow just melting and new mud just sprouting. The wind whipped her hair. She put her arm out and pretended it was a wing. It felt terrific to not feel afraid. Then she started to sing.

About the Author
    Peggy Gifford is the author of
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love
Stuart Little, which was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club’s Kids Reading List, and
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
, praised by
Booklist
as “laugh-out-loud funny.” Peggy holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has worked as an editor for the Feminist Press and as an acquisitions editor for SUNY Press. She divides her time between New York City and South Carolina with her husband, Jack. You can visit Peggy and Moxy at www.peggygifford.com .

About the Illustrator
    Valorie Fisher is the author and illustrator of several books, including
When Ruby Tried to Grow Candy, How High Can a Dinosaur Count?
, and
My Big Brother
. Her photographs for the Moxy Maxwell books have been called “fresh,” “creative,” “funny,” and “snort-inducing.” Valorie’s photographs can be seen in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. She lives in Cornwall, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Text copyright © 2009 by Peggy Gifford
Photographs copyright © 2009 by Valorie Fisher
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.
Moxy Maxwell does not love practicing the piano / by Peggy Gifford;
photographs by Valorie Fisher.—1st ed.
p.     cm.
Summary: On the day of her recital, ten-year-old Moxy prepares for it in her usual flamboyant way which creates chaos at home.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89289-9
[1. Concerts—Fiction. 2. Piano—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction. 4. Brothers and
sisters—Fiction. 5. Humorous stories.] I. Fisher, Valorie, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.G3635M1 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008036639
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