Amelia Bedelia Sets Sail

by Herman Parish

  6 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)

  ¼ cup sugar

  3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (plus extra for decorating)

  ¼ cup sweetened condensed milk

  1 cup cold milk

  1 package instant chocolate pudding mix

  4 ounces whipped topping (optional)

  Directions

  1. In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs with butter and sugar, and stir until mixed well.

  2. Press the mixture against the bottom and sides of a 9-inch pie pan until completely covered. You can use your fingers or a spoon.

  3. Put chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and heat for thirty seconds at full power.

  4. Mix the sweetened condensed milk into the softened chocolate chips and stir until smooth. Pour the mixture on top of the graham cracker crust and spread evenly with a spoon or spatula.

  5. In a large bowl, combine the cup of milk and the pudding mix, whisking or stirring with a fork until smooth. Set aside for 3 minutes, or until pudding has started to set.

  6. Pour the pudding into the crust on top of the chocolate chip layer.

  7. Chill the mud pie in the refrigerator for three hours, until it’s completely set.

  8. Decorate the mud pie with whipped topping and chocolate chips, if you want to. (You can buy whipped topping or make your own by beating whipping cream until it’s stiff.)

  Then cut and serve!

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  Credits

  Cover art © 2015 by Lynne Avril.

  Cover design by Sylvie Le Floc’h.

  Copyright

  Gouache and black pencil were used to prepare the black-and-white art.

  Amelia Bedelia is a registered trademark of Peppermint Partners, LLC.

  AMELIA BEDELIA SETS SAIL. Text copyright © 2015 by Herman S. Parish III. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Lynne Avril. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Parish, Herman.

  Amelia Bedelia sets sail / by Herman Parish ; pictures by Lynne Avril.

  pages cm.—(Amelia Bedelia ; #7) “Greenwillow Books.”

  Summary: “Amelia Bedelia and her mother share a summer vacation home at the shore with her aunt Mary and her cousin Jason, who has a wicked sense of adventure and a nose for trouble”—Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-233405-3 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-06-233404-6 (pbk. ed.)

  EPub Edition © June 2015 ISBN 9780062334060

  [1. Beaches—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.]

  I. Avril, Lynne, (date) illustrator. II. Title.

  PZ7.P2185Arb 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014050045

  15 16 17 18 CG/OPM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FIRST EDITION

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