Holly Reviews, Bookman!

There are books that you read as a young girl and relish in the moment, but lose track of as an adult. Then there are those that will bloom up in your mind from time to time, reminding you of what it was like to be that young. The Wish by Gail Carson Levine is one of the latter for me. This enchanting middle grade novel stars the perfectly normal and perfectly nice Wilma Sturtz. Wilma likes herself well enough, but no one seems to really notice her. Sometimes, she thinks her classmates forget about her or haven't ever seen her to begin with. With graduation on the horizon, Wilma hopes she can just make a fresh start after the school year. But then, Wilma meets on old woman who promises to give Wilma her wish: to be the most popular girl in school. The crazy thing? The wish comes true. Suddenly Wilma has a great group of friends and loads of boys even want to be her date to the Graduation Night Dance (one seems to even be leaving her love poems). But when Wilma realizes how th...