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The Wish (rack)

The Wish (rack)

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Rating: 3 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
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.

Rating: 3 stars
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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