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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Kindergarten-3 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Picture Book

Historical Time Period
Modern
Topic
Christmas | Dolls | Holidays | Orphans | Wishes
Main Character
Doll | Family | Girl(s)
Format
Book

Story of Holly and Ivy

Author: Godden, Rumer

Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she’s sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday. Can all three wishes come true? This festive tale is perfectly complemented by beloved Barbara Cooney’s luminous illustrations, filled with the warm glow of the Christmas spirit.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 1-5 Grades

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Topic
Christian | Holidays | School | St. Patrick's Day | Vegetables | Wishes
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Green Gravy (Cul-de-sac Kids #14)

Author: Lewis, BeverlyPart of a Series: Cul-de-sac Kids

Carly Hunter is proud to be chosen “Student of the Week.” She even gets to make a special wish–just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Carly decides her classmates must wear green because she’s Irish. And she wants everyone to eat only green foods, too, during lunch.But Jimmy, her adopted Korean brother, doesn’t want to join the silly custom. He thinks green foods are yucky.Who will win this brother-sister tug-of-war?

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Lexile/Reading Level
790L

Genre/Category
Fairy Tales | Fantasy | Fiction

Topic
Moon | Princess | Wishes
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Caldecott | Caldecott Medal
Format
Book

Many Moons

Author: Thurber James

A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 3-7 Grades

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction

Topic
Choices | Family Relationships | Friendship | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Magic | Wishes
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Millicent’s Gift

Author: Rinaldi, Ann

Millicent’s fourteenth birthday won’t be an ordinary day. In her family, turning fourteen means receiving a magical Gift: the ability to make one wish in life that will come true. But Millicent isn’t sure she’s ready for that kind of power. As her birthday draws closer, she realizes more and more how dangerous her magic is, and how difficult the choices ahead will be. Struggling with secrets, love, and betrayal, in the end Millicent has to make the hardest decision of all.

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Lexile/Reading Level
870L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Post War | World War I
Date
1910s
Topic
Depression | Paranormal | Post War | Wishes
Geographic Region
Maine | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Tree by Leaf

Author: Voight, Cynthia

It’s not fair that Clothilde’s father has returned from World War I so disfigured that he retreats to the boathouse as a recluse. It’s not fair that her brother has abandoned the family to live with his rich grandfather in Boston. It’s not fair that her mother has reverted to the role of a lady, leaving Clothilde to do all the housework. And it’s certainly not fair that the Maine peninsula that Clothilde inherited from a great-aunt may have to be sold to support the family.Then a mysterious Voice speaks to Clothilde, giving her the chance to change the life fate has dealt her and the people she loves. But Clothilde’s wishes come true in unexpected, frightening ways — and at a price she isn’t sure she has the courage to pay.

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Lexile/Reading Level
570L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Magic

Topic
Faerie Folk | Magic | Wishes
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Boy(s) | Girl(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook | Free Audiobook | Free Ebook | Video

Five Children and It (Five Children #1)

Author: Nesbitt, EdithPart of a Series: Five Children

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy or ‘psammead’ in a gravel pit. Every day ‘It’ will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences. Never out of print since 1902. The Introduction to this edition examines Nesbit’s life and her reading, showing the change in childrens’ literature from Victorian times.

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Lexile/Reading Level
560L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Magic

Topic
Kings and Queens | Magic | Wishes
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book

Bright Shadow

Author: AVI

Morwenna, a young girl, holds the last five wishes in a doomed kingdom. The problem is, she doesn’t know it. Worse, the only way she discovers she has them is by using them. But, if she uses them all, she herself will vanish. As the power of magic awakens within her, Morwenna also realizes the responsibility it carries. People ask things of her that she’s not sure she can give them, no matter how high the stakes, and Morwenna’s wishes are a greater burden than she ever could imagine.

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Lexile/Reading Level
910L

Genre/Category
Classics | Fiction | Humor

Topic
Animals | Penguins | Wishes
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor | Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
Format
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Author: Atwater, Richard and Florence

The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, then get a penguin from the zoo who mates with the first penguin to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done before they eat the Poppers out of house and home!

A classic of American humor, this story of a gentle housepainter and his high stepping penguins has delighted children for generations.

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Lexile/Reading Level
780L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Topic
Boys & Men | Chapter Books | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Hispanics and Latinos | Wishes
Geographic Region
New Mexico | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Medal
Format
Book

…And Now Miguel

Author: Krumgold, Joseph

He wanted to be treated like a man, not a child.

Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains. All the men, that is, except for Miguel. All year long, twelve-year-old Miguel tries to prove that he, too, is up to the challenge’that he, too, is up to the challenge’that he, too is ready to take the sheep into his beloved Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

When his deeds go unnoticed, he prays to San Ysidro, the saint for farmers everywhere. And his prayer is answered . . . but with devastating consequences.

When you act like an adult but get treated like a child, what else can you do but keep your wishes secret and pray that they’ll come true.

This is the story of a twelve-year-old Miguel Chavez, who yearns in his heart to go with the men of his family on a long and hard sheep drive to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains–until his prayer is finally answered, with a disturbing and dangerous exchange.

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Lexile/Reading Level
720L

Genre/Category
Fairy Tales | Fiction

Topic
Wishes
Award-Winning Book
ALA Notable Children's Book | Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, The

Author: Brittain, Bill

“In this account of sinister doings in Coven Tree, Stew Meat [of Devil’s Donkey] relates the King Midas luck that came to three young people, each of whom had a wish fulfilled, and each of whom rued that fulfillment. (A) literary folk story at its best”.–School Library Journal.

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1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
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7th735-1065L
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