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ThePurpleGirlBook
Category:
Children
Publisher: Wakefield & Quincy Press
ISBN-10: 0991028317
Pages: 125
Copyright: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780991028313
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Want an adventure? Be careful what you wish for...This book for middle grade readers follows the life of Violet, a purple-skinned girl whose purple spreads to everything she touches.
CAUTION!
Violet’s purple spreads to everything she touches...
Violet lives behind the garden walls. Is she magical? Is she the devil’s child—or simply cursed? When the lonely thirteen-year-old embarks on a dangerous journey to find the one boy that dared to befriend her, she travels at night ... in the dark ... to keep people from seeing her purple skin.
But no one is more surprised than Violet when she unlocks her mysterious gift.
Excerpt
Chapter One
THE BABY
This is how the story was told to me.
When the midwife brought me into the world, she let out a scream. Hands trembling, she swaddled me in a white blanket, leaving only a small opening so I could breathe. She refused to let my mother see me until my father appeared and stood by her side. Purple mist seeped through the white blanket, staining the midwife’s fingers.
“God help us all. This baby is cursed!” the midwife cried, thrusting me into my father’s arms. She grabbed a rag and tried to scrub the stains off her hands.
As my father unwrapped me, the color drained from his face.
My mother, weak from the delivery, reached toward him...or perhaps to me.
“What’s wrong?”
After a moment, he held me up.
My mother wailed when she saw her purple baby.
My father turned away from her and laid me in the cradle, far from my mother, his fingers shaking as he bundled me in the plum-colored blanket. He remained silent, wiping his purple stained palms on his pants. The stains wouldn’t stay on him forever...only a few moments...but he didn’t know that then.
“Oh, Samuel,” my mother sobbed. “How did this happen?”
My father gazed into my eyes, and when he finally spoke, his voice broke.
“We’ll call her Violet.”
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