The Wish

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Summary: The Wish by Gail Carson Levine
Review: I just finished this awesome book. I couldn't put it down, and I finished it in two days. Everybody in it was so real. I hated Suzanne, the nasty clingy girl who makes everybody miserable. I know somebody just like her. I loved Ardis. She is so cool. Wilma's a lot like me. She wants to be liked even though she knows she shouldn't care about it so much. You should read this book, you'll like it too.

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Summary: The Wish
Review: This is one of the most asinine, embarrassingly stupid books I have ever regretted reading. There was not one single character you could like (except maybe Reggie, the Airedale until he urinated on a valuable statue). The premise of the story was just plain stupid. It is nothing but a padded fairy tale for the middle school set and the sheer madness of it all is disgraceful. All the wishes and spells in the world could not make this reader like Wilma or those petty, snobbish, bratty little girls she was determined to fit in with. It's just a tired rehashing of the age-old desire to fit in, only retold in a foolish forum with ridiculous, farcical characters you can't even like.

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Summary: I Wish I never read "The Wish"
Review: Thisimplausible, ludicrous story is an insult to anyone with a brain that is conscious. Wilma is a sneaky, unappealing character who is about as funny as chronic acne and athlete's foot. The most naive of children would sneer at this silly girl and her band of chowderheaded pals.

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Summary: Decent
Review: This book was OK. I thought it started out pretty well, and it stayed well untill about the last 1/4 of the book. After that everything got a bit shakey and kind of stupid. I guess its for a younger age group than myself, Im 17. Usually I enjoy books like this but this time i just though it was a little but too, uummm, picture perfect. It to me was just kind of a stilly ending. If you decide to read this book you will see what I mean. I give Gail props for the begining, I think the begining was awsome, it just seemed like she threw together the end. But dont take my oppinion, its a decent book and its work 6 bucks I guess. Give it a try.

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Summary: bad
Review: Ever since her two best friends left, eighth grader Wilma Sturtz has felt like a loner in her middle school, Claverford. When an elderly woman Wilma offers her seat to tells Wilma she can grant a wish for her, Wilma knows what to wish for. She wishes she were the most popular kid at Claverford. To Wilma's shock, the wish comes true, and she befriends the three most popular girls - BeeBee, Ardis, and Nina. The popular girls at Claverford are no Regina, Gretchen, and Karen, and Wilma immediately becomes happy and comfortable with them, going to their houses and having sleepovers with them. To top this, 40 boys have asked her to the upcoming dance. However, when Wilma realizes there's a loophole in her wish, she has to find a way to make her popularity last, or she'll be stuck without friends again... or will she? I enjoyed this book. It was a lighter read than The Two Princesses of Bamarre or Ella Enchanted, two other great books that Gail Carson Levine has written, but it was a fun book to read, and I would recommend it to pre-teen or teenage girls, especially ones who've enjoyed other books Ms. Levine has written.

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Summary: This book has a great plot
Review: "Please make me popular," Wilma begged. The Wish, by Gail Carson Levine. I thought this book was confusing and hard to understand because Wilma or someone else in the story would talk about on thing and then suddenly talk about a different thing. The author should have made the book make more sense because a couple of times I would have to go back and re-read the sentence. But the book had a very good plot to it. If I was the author I would be more organized and a lot more fluent.

Wilma Sturtz longed to be popular at her junior high school. But one day she got her wish and her dream came true. Everyone at school started hanging out with her; even the popular girls joined her. It was like magic, but she didn't even know exactly why everyone wanted to be around her. She got to go to dances, even got asked out and wanted to say popular forever. But things changed during her popularity, even her. So will she want to stay popular or not? If you would like to know what happened to her read the book and find out.

I think the author wrote this book because she wanted to express her feelings of longing something. I think she meant people shouldn't try to follow the crowd or be like another person, but follow their own hearts and just be yourself. I would recommend this book because the author used good word choice and the book has a great plot to it.




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Summary: Mrs.Johnson's class project
Review: Wilma is a young girl in highschool that is a total outcast. Her hopes of beeing popular seem to have dissapeared along with her popularity, but when an old lady gives her a wish she wishes to be the most popular girl at Claverford. Oops!! Wilma will be going to collage in a short space of time. But... Will the wish be over once she leaves highschool and will everything be back to normal or will people remember how much they liked her and then she will stay popular or will the wish even end!