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"Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family; Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago; and Zoe, an artist shunned...
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"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome...
45) Three wishes
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"When waitress Bree Miller wakes up in the hospital after a blizzard in a tiny Vermont town, she can't recall the tragedy that landed her there. But she's certain of only one thing--that she has been magically granted three wishes. Are the things Bree longs for--a home, a soul mate, a family--now within her grasp? After all, one of her wishes seems to have already come true: at her bedside is Tom Gates, a renowned author who's come to town to make...
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"This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can't say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead of ornaments there are wishes from those in need. One poignant wish leads Andy to a child named Danny, whose selfless plea strikes a chord. Danny asked Santa for a coat for his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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"Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie...
50) The wishmakers
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Wishmakers volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Ace unwittingly releases a genie from a peanut butter jar and gets unlimited wishes that he must learn to use with their consequences before all the world's cats and dogs turn into zombies who will eat mankind.
51) The Collectors
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Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
52) The wish list
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
53) Granted
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
54) Jubal's wish
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2000
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Jubal Bullfrog wishes for happiness for his animal friends and finds that sometimes wishes come true in an unexpected way.
55) City of wishes
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Legends of Lotus Island volume 3
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[2024]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
56) Wishes
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2021.
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"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
57) The Well-wishers
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Tales of magic volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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James, Laura, and Deborah along with their friends Kip, Lydia, and Gordy relate their experiences when the unpredictable old wishing well in the backyard continues to involve them in a variety of magical adventures.
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Henry and Mudge books volume 18
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Henry's cousin Annie prepares to move in next door, he and Mudge help calm her fears.