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The Wish
Children's fiction
The Wish
243 pages · First published 2000
Eighth-grader Wilma Sturtz feels invisible at school until an old woman on the subway rewards her kindness by granting a wish. Wilma asks to become the most popular student at Claverford and immediately finds herself surrounded by friends, admirers, invitations, and potential dates. The perfect wish contains a serious loophole: graduation is only weeks away, and its magic may not follow her to high school. Gail Carson Levine turns middle-school social anxiety into a modern fairy tale about popularity, identity, and the difference between being universally liked and genuinely known.
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Bullying, loneliness and social exclusion; intense concern with popularity and dating; magical wish with emotional consequences; adolescent kissing.
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