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Legend has it, if you climb the 28 stairs leading to the school dormitory and count each step aloud, a 29th step will appear and a spirit will grant you a wish. If you're intentions are honorable, your wish can be a blessing of good fortune. But at this high school, where paranoia and jealousy reign, malicious wishes are about to unleash an unspeakable evil. Be careful what you wish for, some wishes were never meant to be granted.

2) Genies don't ride bicycles

Author

Dadey, Debbie

Series

Bailey School Kids

Language

English

Formats

Description

When the Bailey School kids find an old bottle and open its stopper their wishes start to come true, and they wonder if the new man in town might just be a genie.

3) Please try to remember the first of Octember!

Author

LeSieg, Theo

Publisher

Beginner Books

Language

English

Description

Every wish is fulfilled on the First of Octember.

4) The forgetting spell

Author

Myracle, Lauren

Series

Wishing day

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

5) The longest hair in the world

Author

Duncan, Lois

Language

English

Formats

Books, eAudiobook

Description

NYT - Children’s Picture Books

On her sixth birthday, Emily wishes for the longest hair in the world, and as it continues to grow and grow it creates terrible problems for her and everyone around her.

6) I wish you more

Author

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Description

In simple text and pictures, the author and illustrator create a compendium of small daily moments.

7) The seventh wish

Author

Messner, Kate

Language

English

Formats

Books, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing ... in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"--

8) Bigger than a bread box

Author

Snyder, Laurel

Language

English

Formats

Books, eBook, Kindle

Description

Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old breadbox with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the breadbox.

9) To catch a mermaid

Author

Selfors, Suzanne

Language

English

Formats

Books, eBook, Kindle

Description

When twelve-year-old Boomerang Broom discovers a wish-granting baby mermaid, he takes her home and his little sister begs to keep her, with unexpected consequences.

10) Wish

Publisher

Disney

Language

English

Formats

Movies, New Movies

Description

Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

11) Stanley and the magic lamp

Author

Brown, Jeff

Series

Flat Stanley

Language

English

Formats

Description

The members of the Lambchop family react differently when a boisterous genie grants their wishes for fame, power, and the ability to fly

12) Yes Day!

Author

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Language

English

Formats

Description

A little boy gets everything he asks for on Yes Day, a special day that only comes once a year.

13) Granted

Author

Anderson, John David

Language

English

Formats

Description

Young fairy Ophelia gets her first wish granting assignment and discovers that, although the fate of the fairy world rests on her completing her task, the job of granting a human's wish is anything but easy.

14) Wishtree

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Language

English

Formats

Books, eAudiobook

Description

"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"-- An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

15) Snow day in May

Author

Evans, Christine

Series

(Christine N.).Wish library volume 1
Wish Library

Language

English

Formats

Description

Second-grader Raven faces her fear of public speaking and makes a new friend when her wish backfires.

16) Gladys the magic chicken

Author

Rubin, Adam

Publisher

G. P. Putnam's Sons

Language

English

Description

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.

17) As you wish

Author

Sedoti, Chelsea

Language

English

Formats

Description

In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously. 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...

18) Charlie & Mouse are magic

Author

Snyder, Laurel

Series

Charlie and Mouse volume 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

19) The castle in the mist

Author

Ephron, Amy

Series

Castle in the Mist volume Book 1

Language

English

Formats

Audiobooks, Books

Description

"Sent for the summer to their aunt's sleepy village in the English countryside, Tess and Max find the key to a castle hidden from time and learn that wishes can come true, if they wish carefully"--

20) Rubylicious

Author

Kann, Victoria

Series

Pinkalicious

Language

English

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Description