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  41. Hygiene: cleanliness

  42. Jostle: bump and shake

  43. Legitimate: official

  44. Maintenance: upkeep

  45. Milling: walking

  46. Miniature: tiny

  47. Minnow: small freshwater fish

  48. Oceanographer: a scientist who studies the ocean

  49. Officially: formally

  50. Pathetic: pitiful

  51. Plunge: to jump or dive into water

  52. Privilege: honor

  53. Professional: expert

  54. Reflection: mirror image

  55. Rhythm: particular beat

  56. Scandal: disgraceful action

  57. Scrawled: written sloppily

  58. Sprawling: spreading out

  59. Sprouted: suddenly appeared

  60. Stash: tuck away for safekeeping

  61. Stateroom: a bedroom on a ship

  62. Stern: back of a boat

  63. Summarizes: recaps

  64. Synchronized: exactly together

  65. Technically: officially

  66. Throng: crowd

  67. Thunderous: loud

  68. Timidly: shyly

  69. Torturous: painful

  70. Trawler: large boat

  71. Wedging: squeezing

  About the Authors

  Jenna McCarthy is a writer, speaker, and aspiring drummer who has wanted magical boots since she learned to walk. She lives with her husband, daughters, cats, and dogs in sunny Southern California.

  Carolyn Evans is an author, speaker, and singer/songwriter who once opened for Pat Benatar—you can ask your mom who that is. She loves traveling to faraway places but is just as happy at home with her husband and kids, living by a river in South Carolina and dreaming up grand adventures for Maggie Malone.

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  Maggie Malone and the Mostly Magical Boots

  Jenna McCarthy and

  Carolyn Evans

  For Maggie Malone, every day is Freaky Friday with the help of her very special new boots.

  When Maggie Malone’s Aunt Fi gives her a pair of used, scuffed, plain brown boots for her birthday, she’s less than impressed. Why couldn’t her life be more like tween-pop sensation Becca Star? Instead, Maggie’s stuck going to a new school in ugly boots. Until she wakes up in Becca’s shoes—literally. Maggie’s new boots are magical. They won’t make broccoli taste like macaroni and cheese, but they will let her spend a day in the life of anyone she chooses.

  Maggie Malone Gets the Royal Treatment

  Jenna McCarthy and

  Carolyn Evans

  Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes can be a royal pain.

  Every day is Freaky Friday for Maggie Malone and her Mostly Magical Boots. Whenever she slips on the MMBs, Maggie gets to be whomever she wants for a whole day. And whose life could be more fun to try on than the glamorous Princess Wilhelmina of Wincastle’s? Even better, Wilhelmina is a bridesmaid in the Royal Wedding of the Century!

  But even pampered princesses have whopper-sized problems—and hers is an evil archenemy named Penelope. Will she survive Penelope’s tricks or will the whole wedding turn into a royal disaster?