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 © 2008 by Peggy Gifford
   Photographs copyright © 2008 by Valorie Fisher
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   Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.
   Moxy Maxwell does not love writing thank-you notes / by Peggy Gifford; photographs by Valorie Fisher.
   p. cm.
   Summary: Ten-year-old Moxy Maxwell has promised to write twelve thank-you notes by the day after Christmas so that she and her twin brother Mark can go to Hollywood to visit their father, but all her brilliant ideas to help finish the task more efficiently end up creating chaos in the house.
   [1. Thank-you notes—Fiction. 2. Behavior—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Family life—Fiction. 6. Christmas—Fiction. 7. Humorous stories.] I. Fisher, Valorie, ill. II. Title.
   PZ7.G3635Mw 2008
   [Fic]—dc22
   2007015686
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   eISBN: 978-0-375-89230-1
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