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Author
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad
3) Wishtree
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
"Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"--People write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say that Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is...
5) Páradais
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Mariana Enríquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reúnen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasías. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografía, sueña con seducir a la vecina de al lado -una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesión malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compañero, fantasea con renunciar a su...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When the lives of a girl, who has terrifying visions, and a witch, who grants wishes to children in the woods, collide in the most unexpected of ways, a dark, magical truth threatens to doom them both"--
The waking forest has secrets. To Rhea, it appears like a mirage, dark and dense, at the very edge of her backyard-- but when she reaches out to touch it, the forest vanishes. To the Witch it is her home, where she sits on her throne of carved bone,...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro's days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family or friends. As she spirals into despair, her mirror begins to shine; with a touch, Kokoro is pulled from her lonely life into a resplendent, bizarre fairytale castle guarded by a strange girl in a wolf mask. Six other students have been brought to the castle, and soon this marvelous refuge becomes their playground. The...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
10) The wishmakers
Author
Series
Wishmakers volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ace unwittingly releases a genie from a peanut butter jar and gets unlimited wishes that he must learn to use with their consequences before all the world's cats and dogs turn into zombies who will eat mankind.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.
Melony Yoshimura's parents have always been overprotective. They say it's because a demonic spirit called the Amanjaku once preyed upon kids back in Japan, but Melony suspects it's just a cautionary...
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, three women friends meet every week for drinks, dubbing themselves the Wednesday Night Witches. One evening they share a strange bottle of liqueur and afterwards find their wishes coming true.
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Van Markson embarks on a quest to rescue his best friend from a dangerous wish collector"--
Author
Series
Star Darlings volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"There are lots of strange things going on at Starling Academy these days: Leona is devastated about her Wish Pendant failure. Ophelia, the newest Star Darling, is completely clueless. Vega's roommate, Piper, is getting on her last nerve. And Scarlet? Who knows? She's nowhere to be found! So when by-the-book Vega gets sent to Wishworld on the next mission, she finds herself very distracted. Why is her Wisher so secretive? Vega needs to solve this...
Author
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Genna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War-era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Hasta ahora el cumpleaños de Carmela no puede ser mejor. Hoy es lo suficientemente mayor para acompañar a su hermano en su recorrido por la ciudad. Y la tarde que pasan juntos se llena con la magia de lo que ven a su alrededor: desde el brillante sol de los campos hasta las golosinas en la vidriera de la panadería. Pero cuando recoge un diente de león que crece en el concreto, se pregunta qué otra cosa podría desear... y decide entonces salir...
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