Well Wished

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Summary: This was a great book that was brilliantly written!
Review: Energetic, quick-witted, and vibrant like her copper-colored hair, 11-year-old Nuria relishes life with her grandfather after years of isolation and scorn living with her aunt. Her grandfather's town has a real wishing well that grants each person one wish per lifetime. However, few use their wish because the well often tries to lure people into making bad wishes. Nuria longs for a friend, someone to play with, because the town's children have all disappeared. She knows that the children's disappearance probably means that someone's wish went awry. Nuria's grandfather uses his one wish to try to get the children back, and sure enough, Catty Winters, also 11, turns up back in town. Nuria's friendship with Catty leads to a foolish wish that lands Nuria in Catty's body, confined to Catty's wheelchair.

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Summary: Be Careful What You Wish For
Review: Have you ever read a really fabulous book about a normal girl who gets involved with a magical wishing well, has tons of adventures, and makes a new friend? If you have, super. Then read another one. If you haven't, then read Well Wished by Franny Billingsly. This book is about a girl named Nuria who lives with her grandfather, the Avy just outside a small village. In the village square there is a wishing well that grants everybody one wish per lifetime. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Wrong-o! The wishing well tries as hard as it possibly can to misread your wish; one word off and you're in trouble. There was this one man who wanted to be popular and well known, so he asked to be a pillar of society. He ended up a column in the town square. Nuria's grandfather always warns her not to make a wish, but she really wants a friend. (She doesn't have any friends because all the children in the town were wished away. She didn't get wished away because she lived outside of the town.) Anyway, Nuria's grandfather wishes for Nuria to have a friend and Catty Winter comes back. She and Nuria grow to be close friends. And then, Catty asks Nuria to do something incredibly important for her. To use her once-in-a-lifetime wish to make Catty have strong legs again. (Catty is in a wheelchair.) Nuria gives in, makes the wish and awful stuff starts to happen! This is an exceptional book, it has action, mystery, and humor all wrapped into one, and it even has a moral: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! You should read this book for several reasons. It's a really thrilling book because the main character gets into lots of adventures and you hang on the every last word trying to find out what's going to happen next. Also, the detail is so descriptive that it makes you feel like you've been pulled into the story and are watching everything up close. This is why you should read Well Wished. This book isn't perfect. There are some small flaws. Some people may say that this book is confusing, but if you don't skim and pay close attention you'll really enjoy reading it. Also, Well Wished is one of those books that every time you re-read you pick up something new. That's why it's so much fun to read again and again. You'll really enjoy reading this book. It's so thrilling and mysterious, so get off your computer and read it!

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Summary: Two thumbs up for this one!
Review: I am a 12 year old girl going into the 7th grade. I read Well Wished and absolutely loved it! I liked it because it was about 2 girls my age, and it had a lot of things in it that I could think in my head, " Wow! I wonder how the author came up with that idea," or "wow cool!" Well that's my review. I would definately recommend this book to everyone!

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Summary: A charming and wonderfully satisfying fantasy!
Review: In a stunning first novel, Franny Billingsley creates a fantasy that is at once hauntingly other-worldly and yet fully believable. The protagonist, Nuria, has come to live in the village of Bishop Mayne with her grandfather, the Avy, just as he has made a wish at the Wishing Well. The plot turns around wishes, as the title suggests, particularly the Avy's wish that the children of the village return. Billingsley's prose is rich and evocative, her characters fully-formed and quirky individuals, her plot tight and satisfying with carefully laid fantasy elements throughout

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Summary: Lovely fairy tale style novel
Review: The old adage "be careful what you wish for" comes true in this original body-swap fantasy that reads like a fairy tale. A magical wishing well twists the wisher's words to bring misfortune; can Nuria, used to getting her way, trick the well into giving her what she wants after her own wish goes awry?
Billingsley creates vivid complex and dramatic characters. Her lyrical storytelling is slightly old fashioned and reminiscent of Hans Christian Andersen, though wordier.
The plot is a neat way for Billingsley to explore issues of identity, friendship, promise, and trust. This title makes a nice addition for fantasy fans; it may serve as a tie-in to folk and fairy tale units for older children, create an example for children who wish to write their own original fairy tales, or raise a discussion about differently-abled people.

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Summary: This is a Must Read Book
Review: The Well Wished by Franny Billingsley is a five star book. It was Great. The thing I liked best about this book was how one girl wanted to share her traditions with her friend that was handicapped. There were no illustrations in this book but I could imagine the pictures in my head because of the descriptions. I didn't learn anything new from this book, but it was great anyway I would recommend this book to a friend because it is a very good book. However, I think only people that like "made-up things" would like this story.

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Summary: Ironic... astonishing... quite the book for young readers
Review: This book is quite the master piece for children or people of any age. The title, "Well Wished" gives a nice, yet mysterious description of this book. It makes the book attractive and also gives the reader a lot of suspense about the book. This book is basically about a well that (who) has "a mind of it's own". Most wishes made from that well brings a whole chain of wishes-gone-wrong. That is what Nuria found out when she wished for her friend, who lost her wish because she wished for something that vanished all children from her town. "One wish for a life time" the book quotes. My personal favorite about this story is of Agnes, the well's guardian. She sits there and announces the three rules of the Well. Living in complete sadness, she was freed when Miss D'Estuffier furiously ran to the Well and made a wish for more wishes, therfore she replaced Agnes.This book is a creative and enchanting book is well worth reading!

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Summary: A Good Book
Review: Well Wished by Franny Billingsley is a good book. The main character is eleven-year-old Nuria Magdelena, who lives in the mountain village of Bishop Mayne with her grandfather, the Avy. In this town there is a Wishing Well, and everyone can have one wish in a lifetime. But the Well is dangerous, and a lot of the wishes backfire. It was one of these wishes that made all of the children in the village disappear, and now the Avy has wished for them to come back. One child returns, Catty Winter, whose legs are crippled. She wants Nuria to make a wish for her to walk again, and Nuria decides to make the wish for her new friend. But the wish backfires, and Nuria and Catty switch bodies. Will Nuria ever find a way to get back to her own body, or will she be stuck in Catty's body forever?

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Summary: The Best Book of the Summer!!!
Review: Well Wished is definitly one of my all time favs. It's about a young girl named Nuria, who lives in the mountains with the Avi, and her new friend, Catty. In the town of Bishop Mayne, there is a magical and misterious wishing well with a mind of it's own. Everyone can make a wish, (one per person), but wishes usually go wrong. Once, someone made a wish that made all the kids of the town go away. That is, all except Nuria, who is the only kid left in the town\surrounding area. This is where Catty comes in. She and her family move back to the town of Bishop Mayne, and she and Nuria become friends. Catty, however, has misteriously crippled legs and has to use a wheelchair. Nuria swears to make a wish to return Catty's legs to normal, but I won't ruin the story for you by telling you any more!!!!^^ This is a GREAT story with interesting charecters and, well, DIFFERENT settings. Every chapter unfolds more information and mystery, and will leave you breathless. HIGHLY RECCOMENDED (can't you tell??^^).