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    The Wish

    Written by Gail Carson Levine

    Narrated by Ariadne Meyers

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Be careful what you wish for . . .

    Wilma Sturtz is invisible and miserable at school. So when an old lady on the subway offers her a wish, Wilma immediately asks for popularity-in fact, she asks to be the most popular kid at school.

    Suddenly, Wilma has more friends than she can keep track of, forty dates to the Grad Night Dance, and a secret admirer writing her love poems. Everything is great, until she realizes there's a loophole in her wish, and her time in the spotlight has almost run out.

    "A highly entertaining, funny, poignant modern fairy tale." -Kirkus Reviews


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 11, 2009
    ISBN9780307737984
    Author

    Gail Carson Levine

    Gail Carson Levine's first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include Ever, a New York Times bestseller; Fairest, a Best Book of the Year for Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and a New York Times bestseller; Dave at Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; A Tale of Two Castles; Stolen Magic; The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre; Ogre Enchanted; and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction books Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink, as well as the picture books Betsy Who Cried Wolf and Betsy Red Hoodie. Gail Carson Levine and her husband, David, live in a two-centuries-old farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

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    • 3/5
      I didn't actually read this; read the first chapter and a bit, skipped through, and read the last couple chapters. That's all the teen angst I could stand. "Oh dear, I'm not popular, but all I want is to be popular with the popular kids..." The story even points out that she hasn't bothered to try to make friends outside the popular crowd. By the end of the book she has made friends, both in and out of the popular crowd, and she seems a lot better...but when she runs into the witch/fairy/whatever again, she tries the same stuff over and it's not her doing that she isn't granted another (unwise) wish. I don't have time to read about stupid people who don't learn. Bye-bye.
    • 3/5
      There's an awful lot of kissing in this book for a story about eighth-graders.A very quick read, and I'm glad of it. If it had lasted any longer I probably would've started to get irritated.It might be an okay book for middle readers, but unfortunately it's not one of those gems that can be thoroughly enjoyed at any age.
    • 5/5
      The Wish, by Gail Carson Levine, is a book about a girl (Wilma) who desperately wants to be liked by her peers. She meets an old lady on the bus and decides to offer her seat to her. The old lady apparently has magical powers and offers Wilma one wish. Of course, Wilma wishes to be popular. This book follows the adventures Wilma has when she is popular, and also shows the consequences it causes when the wish is over. I would recommend readers in 4th-6th grade for this book
    • 4/5
      This is a good text for middle school or 5th grade girls. It follows Wilma, an unpopular girl in middle school. Suddenly, Wilma's wish to be the most popular girl in school is granted! And life seems wonderful--she has tons of friends and dates to her school's dances. But she begins to wonder, how long will this last? Are these people really my friends? This is a great book to deal with the issue of popularity and being liked for who you are.
    • 4/5
      THE WISH did not used to be one of my favorite Gail Carson Levine books but now as I re-read it I realize I gave it a lot of bad rep. No fairies. (Except for that lady who granted Wilma's wish.) No monsters. No evil step-mothers. The spell doesn't even last for Wilma's whole life! I pretty much tossed it into the reject heap. But I just recently started to alphabetize my books and I was combing the basement for all my books. I found THE WISH, and fell in love with it after the last time when I threw it in my mental trashcan. What a mistake! The personalities of all the kids in the book are all different. There's one girl, Nina, who gives you "points" for smart moves and subtracts points when you do something "uncool." The language is nice and the book flows. Wilma's school, however... She divides the students into "wallets" and "brains." And the poems that she gets sent on the first day of her popularity spell... SO stereotyped. A "wallet" sends her this one: "Wilma's sweet. She's a treat. Let's make a date. We'll call it fate. Boo hoo. I love you." SO stereotyped... And a "brain" sends her this one: "My barking siren My short-necked beauty My long-toothed divine Tie me to a tall mast So I may not come at you Stop my mouth with a silk bandanna That I may not tell my hope I think and dream and drink of you" Too stereotyped for words! And they're both GROSS poems. No self-respecting middle-schooler in their right mind would write those. So... I loved the book. I really did. Apart from my harsh criticism, the rest of my reading of this book is just pure enjoyment. Really. I think it's four stars. I can definitely see, though, why other people would give it less or more stars.
    • 3/5
      fantasy, what happens when you arent careful in what you ask for
    • 4/5
      its a very mysteries book you just have to read it to understand it and really good so if you like mysteries them i would suggest this book to you.
    • 5/5
      very interesting, a good but very real.
    • 4/5
      In thie modern day fairy tale, Wilma is granted the wish to be the most popular kid at her middle school. She is surpised to discover that when popularity just means that other kids just like you no matter what you do, it doesn't mean really like the person you are. A nice book for girls obsessed by the popularity issue which can monopolize the life of a middle school girl.
    • 3/5
      Wilma’s friends have moved, and she can’t seem to make any new ones, so when she gets a wish, she wishes to be the most popular girl in school. She befriends the most popular girls, but also befriends the other unpopular kids. She finds out that she can be popular and be a good person, so that when she stops being popular by default, people still like her.