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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.
3) Oh, baby!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie accidentally switches places with her best friend's baby sister, and must figure out a way to explain how the baby was able to talk without letting anyone know what really happened.
Author
Series
Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Spooky Books for 3rd-5th Grades
Children's Genre: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Genre: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
When Lindsey and her friends play the wishing game "Bloody Mary" in front of a strange antique mirror, one by one their wishes start coming true, with horrifying results.
Author
Series
Philippa Fisher volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Philippa Fisher is just your average 11 year old. But that changes when Daisy, her fairy godsister, enters her life.
6) The Wish
Author
Publisher
Front Street, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lila lives far away from the rest of the world on a cliff overlooking the sea, and when she wishes upon a star it is only for a bag of flour, but one night she becomes more adventurous.
7) Half magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It...
8) Jubal's wish
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jubal Bullfrog wishes for happiness for his animal friends and finds that sometimes wishes come true in an unexpected way.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a witch loses her magic walking stick, which has been used over the years to grant hundreds of miserable wishes, she tricks a young girl into finding and returning it, with unexpected results.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jane wishes she were more like her friend Pyg the sculptor until Pyg's statue of a beautiful goddess comes to life and teaches them both to be careful what they wish for. Based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The members of the Lambchop family react differently when a boistrous genie grants their wishes for fame, power, and the ability to fly.
17) Wishing Well
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Even though Thomas Candlewick is again in charge of the Wishworks Factory, things are not back to normal with the Jinns threatening war, so Ben and his friends set off to find the last two missing magical weapons that can help protect Wishworks.
18) Wishful thinking
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Jinns plot to wage war against their age-old enemies, the humans, Ben and his mentor Thom try to negotiate peace, but Penelope and Rottenjaw work against them and war seems inevitable, causing Ben and his friends to seek two magical weapons that can help protect Wishworks from destruction.
19) The wish
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Marvin Redpost's new friend Casey shares with him her magic crystal that can make wishes come true, things get out of control.
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