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.
Green Gravy (Cul-de-sac Kids #14)
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?
Many Moons
Millicent’s Gift
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.
Tree by Leaf
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.
Five Children and It (Five Children #1)
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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Bright Shadow
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.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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.
…And Now Miguel
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.