Saving Wishes

Saving Wishes
Author: G. J. Walker-Smith
Publisher: G.J. Walker-Smith
Total Pages: 246
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0987484540

Second Hearts (Book two, The Wishes Series) Available now. Storm Shells (Book three, The Wishes Series) Available now.

Wishes

Wishes
Author: Muon Thi Van
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338792865

An arresting, poetic journey and a moving reflection on immigration, family, and home, from an acclaimed creative team. Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on the littlest member of the family. Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative that is both timely and timeless. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the story chronicles a family's difficult and powerful journey to pack up what they can carry and to leave their world behind, traveling to a new and unknown place in a crowded boat. With sparse, poetic, and lyrical text from acclaimed author Muon Thi Van, thoughtful back matter about the author's connection to the story, and luminous, stunning illustrations from Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Victo Ngai, Wishes tells a powerful and timely story in a gentle and approachable way for young children and their families.With themes of kindness, bravery, hope, and love running throughout, Wishes is a must-have book for every child's bookshelf.

Second Hearts

Second Hearts
Author: G.J. Walker-Smith
Publisher: G.J. Walker-Smith
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2013-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0987484559

Book 2 of the #1 bestselling Wishes Series Charli Blake's high tolerance for risk doesn't always work in her favour. After a year of living out her dream of travelling the world, the sunny West African village of Kaimte would be her last stop. She's bound for New York, in search of the boy she'd let go of long ago. For Charli, nothing has changed. She's travelled thousands of miles but hasn't moved an inch. Adam Décarie still means everything to her. But reality soon hits hard. For Adam, everything has changed. Memories of the best love she's ever known is all she has left, until Charli makes a shocking discovery. None of it had ever been real in the first place.

Carmela Full of Wishes

Carmela Full of Wishes
Author: Matt de la Peña
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399549056

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! In their first collaboration since the Newbery Medal- and Caldecott Honor-winning Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson deliver a poignant and timely new picture book that's sure to be an instant classic. When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true--she's finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their neighborhood, past the crowded bus stop, the fenced-off repair shop, and the panadería, until they arrive at the Laundromat, where Carmela finds a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow its white fluff away, her brother tells her she has to make a wish. If only she can think of just the right wish to make . . . With lyrical, stirring text and stunning, evocative artwork, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson have crafted a moving ode to family, to dreamers, and to finding hope in the most unexpected places.

Wish

Wish
Author: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374302731

From award-winning author Barbara O'Connor comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers the true meaning of family.

The "Get Well Soon" Book

The
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761319220

Cynthia the centipede, Harold the hamster, Tiffany the turtle, and other animals suffer from various injuries or illnesses.

Saving June

Saving June
Author: Hannah Harrington
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2023-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 037321202X

Includes and excerpt from Speechless by Hannah Harrington.

Paper Wishes

Paper Wishes
Author: Lois Sepahban
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374302170

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family.

Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
Author: Denise Grover Swank
Publisher: DGS
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2014-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939996023

First book in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series. For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect. Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She’s well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty secrets of his own. Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they’ll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn’t her biggest worry after all.

One Hundred Wishes

One Hundred Wishes
Author: Rohan Candappa
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0740750186

"I wish you the warmth of the beds that you slept in as a child."Don't you wish the very best for your loved ones? In his newest book, One Hundred Wishes, best-selling author Rohan Candappa shares one hundred blessings he wishes upon his favorite people. One Hundred Wishes captures the wisdom and wit of Candappa's spectacularly successful Little Book of Stress while perfectly blending a bit of whimsy. With this beautifully packaged gift book you can bestow a multitude of good wishes upon any special person in your life. * I wish that no one ever makes you eat brussels sprouts. * I wish you words that make you smile like squelch, flange, and jojoba. * I wish you the wisdom to listen to the inarticulate. * I wish that in restaurants you always choose the meal that everyone else wishes they'd ordered. * I wish that your dealings with lawyers are mercifully brief. * I wish you friends who love you for who you are. Whether it's a birthday, graduation, anniversary, or other well-wishing occasion, One Hundred Wishes is the gift book to tell someone you love that you wish them the very best.