Pure Dead Brilliant (24 page)

For Rosemary Sandberg,
and about time too.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Text and illustrations copyright © 2003 by Debi Gliori
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in
Great Britain by Transworld Publishers Ltd. in 2003.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gliori, Debi.
Pure dead brilliant / Debi Gliori.
p. cm.
SUMMARY
: Time travel, a computer virus that's deadly to humans, and other strange
things begin to happen when some would-be witches come to stay with the eccentric
Strega-Borgia family.
[1. Witches—Fiction. 2. Time travel—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.]
I. Title.
PZ7.G4889 Ptr
2003
[Fic]—dc21
2002040994

eISBN: 978-0-375-89038-3

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