One True Wish
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A dash of fairy magic illuminates this “heartwarming…lyrically told” (School Library Connection) middle grade novel about three friends confronting their deepest wishes from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate.
Phoebe is a wish-granting fairy who doesn’t believe in children. Birdie, Gem, and Van are sixth graders who don’t believe in fairies. But deep down, each of them has a wish.
Birdie and Gem have been best friends forever, but now things are changing, and Birdie doesn’t know why. Birdie feels left behind, while Gem feels she’s growing up too fast and no one understands what it’s like. Van is lonely, far from their friends in Ireland who never thought that being nonbinary was such a big deal.
When Phoebe crash-lands in the woods nearby, the three kids must race against the clock to restore the fairy’s powers and get her back home. They’ll have to summon a new kind of magic to save Phoebe and their friendships—the magic of their deepest, truest wishes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Four tweens navigating personal troubles must help a disgraced fairy return to her realm in this lightly fantastical novel by Kate (By Any Other Name, for adults). Sixth grader Birdie has been struggling to interpret her best friend Gemima's erratic behavior ever since Gem started puberty; Gem has similarly been wrestling with her own developing body and feeling that no one understands her. Meanwhile, newcomer Van, Birdie's nonbinary neighbor from Ireland, is miserable having to go between their divorced parents' homes. Each tween is preoccupied with their own internal challenges when Phoebe, a fairy from the North Star with the ability to grant wishes, crash-lands in their Texas town. Phoebe regales the group with the story of how she was cast out from her realm because she questioned the existence of children, a vital belief of the fairies' magical system. To restore her power and return her to the North Star, Birdie, Gem, and Van, joined by Gem's younger brother Marley, must convince Phoebe that children are real. Kate fittingly centers the four kids, thoughtfully developing each of their personalities and conflicts, and providing grounding realism to the fanciful, wish-granting premise. Most characters are white; Gem and Marley are white and Jewish. Ages 10–up.
