Blabey, Aaron
Summary: Told in rhyme, Thelma the pony wants to be a unicorn--but when her wish comes true she discovers that there is a downside to fame, and realizes that she was happier at home with her friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Blabey 2017McCullough, Kathy
Summary: When Asha, in a moment of desperation, makes a wish, it is answered by a little ball of boundless energy called Star who helps her save her community and prove that anything is possible if you just believe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Becca Singer is having the Worst Day Ever. She is friendless and alone since Harper dumped her. Then a box arrives in the mail, containing a bracelet, with a note telling Becca to make a wish. She puts on the bracelet and asks to have lots of friends. Suddenly everyone wants to be Becca's BFF-- even her teachers and her own mom! Is this wish a curse? -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Tired of being the middle sister, eleven-year-old Addie Asante uses a magical bracelet to switch places with her thirteen-year-old sister and discovers that being older is not necessarily easier--and worse, her baby sister is now living as Addie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYRubin, Adam
Summary: In Ancient Times, Gladys the dancing chicken goes on an epic adventure when she is mistaken for a magical chicken who grants wishes to those she encounters.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG RUBOrsi, Tea
Summary: In this graphic novel retelling of Disney Wish, Asha finds her plea to save her community answered by a cosmic force called Star, proving that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Determined to out-hop his mud-dweller fate, the frog Tad embarks on a journey to return the Star King to space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2022
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Summary: "Lucy Usthorn of Fort Worth, Texas, is super excited for her class trip to the Natural History Museum. Sure, Ms. Brock, the strict school librarian who happens to be dating Lucy's dad (awkward) is chaperoning. But it'll still be the best day, right? Wrong! Lucy watches in shock and humiliation as her dad proposes to Ms. Brock. Lucy is distraught. If only she could do this day over from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Tanya Fairchild spends her summer vacation in the seaside town of Spinney Wicket, where she makes a new friend, learns about the fairy realm, and discovers a magical wishing tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: A little girl's wish to sail for a day on a boat named for her "with someone nice for company" comes true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 1975
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Summary: When a shooting star grants Sam a million wishes (as long as they are logically possible) he thinks that he will be able to make his life better at his new school--but he soon learns that you have to be very careful, because wishes can have unexpected consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: A boy named Mouse is mixing up a magic potion: put a drop on your nose and make a wish--and in these four stories Mouse, his brother Charlie, and their father find out if the magic potion works and their wishes come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SNYThorpe, Kiki
Summary: Eight-year-old Maddie and her family move to a farm called Horsetail Hollow, and after she and her six-year-old sister find a wishing well, a magnificent white horse appears--but Maximus is a fairy tale horse, conjured out of Evie's book--so when the girls try to wish him back into his story they all end up in the fairy tale, trying to save Rapunzel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney / Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED THOBrauner, Barbara.
Summary: "Lacey Unger-Ware has broken one of the Fairy Godmother rules, and if she doesn't help fulfill Martin Shembly's wish, there will be a chilly magical price to pay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRAEvans, Christine (Christine N.)
Summary: Can a magical wish make Raven and Luca best friends again after they quarrel over their double act in the school talent show?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE EVAMyracle, Lauren
Summary: With her wishing day approaching, Darya wants to forget the tradition exists, but when painful memories resurface, she realizes the decision of what to wish for, or what not to wish for, is one of the most important choices of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYRSedoti, Chelsea
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.......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Sedoti 2017Soule, Charles
Summary: "Everywhere, at precisely the same moment, everyone on Earth gets a genie and one wish. Welcome to the world of... Eight Billion Genies. As people all over the planet make wishes profane and profound, the world -- and humanity -- change forever. We follow eight characters who find themselves in a Detroit dive bar as 'G-Day' descends upon humanity. They navigate their hopes, fears, dreams and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 EIGTillman, Nancy
Summary: Wishes are a magical part of childhood. Whether we wish on stars or blow out candles on a cake, our dreams matter. Nancy Tillman captures the wonder of wishes as only she can, with love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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Summary: "A young girl named Dot is overjoyed when the moving truck arrives at the house down the street, and even more excited when a boy her age steps out, offering the prospect of a new friend. But Albert looks sad, and he won't reveal why. After many attempts to cheer him up, Dot walks away defeated. That night, a balloon with a note tied to its string taps her window. Unfolding the note, Dot finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VOSLloyd, Natalie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Olive suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life. When she is finally allowed to attend school in person, she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy. Olive hopes to find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby. If she can prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted. - adapted from run-on sentence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LLOTeerdhala, Swati
Summary: "When her grandmother gifts her a jasmine flower, Deepa Josyula wishes for her dream boyfriend, which sets in motion a chain of events that makes her question what her heart truly wants-- the perfect boy brought by magic or the uncertainty of the boy next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC TEEAnna, Holly
Summary: When Daisy Dreamer's imaginary friend, Posey, repairs a wishing well, suddenly every wish made since it was broken comes true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2018
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Summary: After the worst snowstorm of the year, a young girl wishes on a snow globe that everyone will come out to play and share a dream of peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019