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Author
Lexile Measure
980L
Summary
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body of a spider, and is very grumpy indeed. He grants the children one wish every day, and though they are excited to have all their desires fulfilled, they...
3) Half magic
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
830L
Summary
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
4) Wishtree
Author
Lexile Measure
590L
Summary
"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 welcoming, and Red's experience as a wishtree is more important than ever"--
Author
Series
Collectors volume 1
Lexile Measure
660L
Summary
Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
6) The wish
Author
Lexile Measure
490L
Summary
When granted her wish to be the most popular girl in school, Wilma, an eighth grader, forgets that she will graduate in three weeks and her popularity will vanish.
7) Wishing day
Author
Series
Wishing Day novel volume 1
Lexile Measure
590L
Summary
Following a town tradition, Natasha makes three wishes at the willow tree on Wishing Day, and after one comes true, she holds out hope that her second wish--that her mother, who disappeared eight years earlier, is alive--will as well.
12) Eden's wish
Author
Series
Eden of the lamp volume 1
Lexile Measure
650L
Summary
Eden has spent her twelve years in luxury in an antique oil lamp but hates being a genie, so she jumps at the chance to go to Earth and revels in its pleasures until she gets caught up in a centuries-old conflict between powerful immortals, placing her mortal friends, Tyler and Sasha, at risk.
14) The seventh wish
Author
Lexile Measure
720L
Formats
Summary
"Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing ... in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"--
15) The fire wish
Author
Series
Jinni wars volume 1
Summary
"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--
16) Yes Day!
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
A little boy gets everything he asks for on Yes Day, a special day that only comes once a year.
17) As you wish
Author
Summary
Madison is a small town in the Mojave desert on the road between nothing and nowhere. The town has a secret: in Madison, everyone can make one wish on their eighteenth birthday-- and that wish always comes true. Eldon has seen how wishing has hurt the people around him. His parents' marriage is strained, his sister is a virtual ghost in their house, his ex-girlfriend is dating his ex-friend.... Now he has only twenty-five days to figure out what to...
18) A comb of wishes
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Summary
Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
19) Wishing season
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Summary
"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"--
20) Hummingbird
Author
Lexile Measure
610L
Summary
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.