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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: THE WISH
Review: A girl named Wilma Strurz was a very unpopular kid at school. At least that's what she thought until she meet an old lady on the subway. The old lady granted Wilma one wish. Wilma wished to be the most popular kid at school. Wilma had more friends than she could count and forty dates for the Grad Night Dance. Wilma finally realized that her popularity may not last forever. The thing I liked about this book was that it was exciting to read and what I didn't like was that this book was that it didn't make sense if you read it really fast. This book would be best for girls at the age of 13, if you read at a medium speed, and if you are into fantasies.
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Summary: Unbelievable,unbeatable, utterly fantastic!
Review: Again, Mrs. Levine gives me a reason to look foward to reading her next book after reading "The Wish". This book is about the unpopular Wilma whose friends leave her alone in 8th grade where she gets a pretty good boost of hope until a point-of-view essay moves her from okay to unaccepetable. Out of the spot light, one day, She meets a strange lady on a subway whom she lends her seat to. for being so kind, The old lady grants her one wish: "I wish to be the most popular kid in Cleaverford middle shcool." Stepping off the subway, she is the most popular kid in Cleaverford. In school, she recieves about forty notes from boys asking for her to go to cleaverford grad night with them. At home, she has so many people call her, her sister knows when the phones ringing "don't get it, Its for Wilma." And, correct each time. Now, she's best friends with the popular girls, she has a boyfriend, and life couldn't be better. There's still one problem: How long will the spell last? Will she be popular forever?Read this book for a good laugh, romance, and to see how some of us can really make our dreams come true-- You just have to look inside.
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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: Another great book by Gail Carson Levine. "The Wish"
Review: I was a little scared to read this book, but the moment I started reading it I couldn't put it down!!! And I really mean it. I started reading it at 12:00AM and I would have kept going till I was finished,but my dad noticed my bedroom light was on and told me to go to sleep cause it was really late. Anyways this story is very cute, Gail has a way of creating likable and very relateable characters in her books. In her fairy tales like Ella Enchanted and the series of Princess stories. This is Gails first Original story since Dave at Night another great book, based on a true story. This is a Tale about a girl named Wilma who meets an old lady on the Subway in NYC and decides she looks so feeble she might topple over and get hurt so she gives up her seat for the women. And the woman grants her a wish of course like Wilma believed it. At first it didn't take affect, but once Wilma entered school she was the most popular girl there. In this book it simulates what being a teen is really like. Not feeling comfortable in your own skin, being insecure, wanting to be in the in crowd,and shunning those who are'nt. Wilma lost all her friends and she was lonely everyone ignored her and soon after something in school they not only ignored her but she was constently ridiculed by her fellow peers. This is a story anybody can relate to. Except someone who hasn't reached middle school yet. Although at sometimes it get's a little cheezy that doesn't spoil the solid story. I dunno what other people are saying about this book because I haven't read the other reviews yet, but if there are bad ones which I'm sure their are since not everybody likes everything. Don't listen to them give this book a chance go to the library and check it out today!!! And *enjoy*!!! God Bless ~Amy
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Summary: The Wish
Review: I've read THE WISH two times and every time I'veenjoyed, but I enjoyed it more the second time. This book tells the story of a girl named Wilma, who is around my own age, who is trying to figure out why some people are popular and some people aren't. She's not one of the popular people in her school, that is, until she meets the old lady. Wilma rides the subway home from school and one day she was stiiting down when an old lady got on the subway, so Wilma gave her seat up for the old lady. The old lady said thank you and that she would grant Wilma one wish. So Wilma wishes to be popular. Then the next day, as soon as she walks in the door to her school, boom!, she's popular! Even the most popular girl in school likes her. This was the best book I've ever read.
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Summary: The Wish: An Enchanting Tale
Review: The Wish by Gail Carson Levine is an enchanting tale of a young pre-teen who yearns to have friends. Wilma has been totally ignored in her junior high school for a while. The only true friend Wilma has is her dog, Reggie. She is a charming and pretty young girl whose selfless nature earns her one wish. The wish she chooses is to be the most popular person at Claverford school. The book is about Wilma's experiences with her new found popularity. She has to make many crucial decisions and learn who she really is, and what she stands for. She also learns about the value of honesty, friendship, and true love. This book is a wonderful tale for junior high students (especially girls). There are characters and events that every student will be able to relate to. We highly recommend the book to teachers and to counselors. Although The Wish is fictional, it is highly entertaining and there are very valid issues that can be discussed within a junior high classroom.
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Summary: The Wish
Review: The Wish comes true!
Imagine a book about a teenage girl who is unpopular at her middle school and only has a
few friends. Her only dream is to be popular at school. One day she is on the subway on the way to school, and she sees an old lady on the subway trying to find seat, but they are all taken. Wilma decides to give her seat up to the old lady. The lady is so appreciative that she offers to grant Wilma a wish. Wilma thinks this old lady is out of her mind, so she says no thank you. The lady insists, so Wilma makes her wish to be popular.
When I read this book, I felt like I was there, right smack- dab in the middle of all of the chaos that was going on in Wilma's, the main character's, life. I liked the way Levine described each of the characters and the way Wilma thought about each one of them.
Wilma was an unpopular teenage girl who wished to be popular more than anything. I liked the theme that Levine chose for this book because it was realistic and that is one of the only things that goes on in this book. Who can believe that one day a girl is not popular and then she meets and old lady on the subway who grants her wish to be popular and "poof!" All of a sudden the next day she is popular.
It is a little bit too unimaginable. If an author is going to write a fantasy book, I think all of the characteristics of the book should be fantasy; it is way too hard to imagine the things that happen in a fantasy book actually happening in real life.
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Summary: A Review that's true!
Review: The Wish, written by Ms. Levine, is a very funny, believable, totally real book. I got it at the library one day and I started it, I was totally sucked into the book when reading it. This is about a girl name Wilma, who was unpopular but then one day she met this mysterious old lady who granted her a wish, to be the most popular girl in SCHOOL. Everyone loved her at SCHOOL. She hanged out with the most popular girls at school, but soon she found out she'll only be popular at her school, this year, and she only had 16 days to enjoy the popularity. Her grad. dance was coming up and that was the last of it. But during her time as Ms.Popularity she found some true friends who'll always love her as who she'll be. BeeBee, Nina, Jared, and many others. If you are interested in the book then pick it up and you can find out what happened at the end.
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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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