Bad Astrid
Authors: Eileen Brennan
Text copyright © 2013 by Eileen Brennan
Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2013 by Regan Dunnick
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brennan, Eileen.
Bad Astrid / Eileen Brennan ; illustrated by Regan Dunnick. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Bad Astrid has been terrorizing everyone and everything on her block ever since her family moved in.
But when an accident befalls the bully, it’s up to a new neighbor to teach Astrid how to be a friend.
eBook ISBN 978-0-375-98099-2 — Trade paperback ISBN 978-0-375-85580-1 — Library binding ISBN 978-0-375-95580-8
[1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Bullies—Fiction.] I. Dunnick, Regan, ill. II. Title.
PZ8.3.B7447Bad 2013 [E]—dc23 2012019018
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To all the brave puppies
—E.B.
To Brandon, Jaimie, Claire, Reggie, Ed, Joyce,
my good friend Mr. Pickles,
and most of all to my wife, Debbie
—R.D.
S
he came into town
like five tons of
bad
luck.
She came into town
in a
big
moving truck.
Meaner
than any girl
you’ll ever meet—
and she and her family
moved in down the street!
Astrid was at least
four feet two,
without socks!
She was boxy and solid,
like a
cabinet
that
talks.
