Books with title I Wish I May, I Wish I Might

It's a sparkling, magical summer for Willa!It's July on Cape Cod, and Willa Havisham isn't so happy about her boyfriend, JFK, being away all summer at baseball training camp. With best-friend Tina and Ruby edging her out lately, Willa wonders what the summer will bring. It turns out there are plenty of surprises in store! For one, there's been a mermaid sighting. There's also a boy named Will who claims to be her long-lost brother. He shares Willa's sea-blue eyes, but Willa wonders what secrets he's hiding and what this news will mean for her famous wedding planner mother. It's going to be a summer filled with fireworks for sure!

It's a sparkling, magical summer for Willa!It's July on Cape Cod, and Willa Havisham isn't so happy about her boyfriend, JFK, being away all summer at baseball training camp. With best-friend Tina and Ruby edging her out lately, Willa wonders what the summer will bring. It turns out there are plenty of surprises in store! For one, there's been a mermaid sighting. There's also a boy named Will who claims to be her long-lost brother. He shares Willa's sea-blue eyes, but Willa wonders what secrets he's hiding and what this news will mean for her famous wedding planner mother. It's going to be a summer filled with fireworks for sure!

From the Life of Willa Havisham--the next story!Willa Havisham is Cape Cod's summer girl, and this summer brings new things for everyone. Most notably, a long-lost brother Willa never knew existed. While Willa's mother, the famous wedding planner, is not so excited about this discovery (it's Willa's father's son), Willa wants to know everything there is to know about this new boy, including why it took him so long to find her. Between family, friends, and Willa's new secret project, it's going to be quite a summer!

t's a sparkling, magical summer for Willa! It's July on Cape Cod, and Willa Havisham isn't so happy about her boyfriend, JFK, being away all summer at baseball training camp. With best-friend Tina and Ruby edging her out lately, Willa wonders what the summer will bring. It turns out there are plenty of surprises in store! For one, there's been a mermaid sighting. There's also a boy named Will who claims to be her long-lost brother. He shares Willa's sea-blue eyes, but Willa wonders what secrets he's hiding and what this news will mean for her famous wedding planner mother. It's going to be a summer filled with fireworks for sure!

(Help find a cure for SMA! A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Families of SMA, a nonprofit organization that funds research to find a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. SMA is a degenerative motor neuron disease that affects approximately 1 out of every 6000 babies born. Find out more at fsma.org. Thank you!)Be careful what you wish for…When young Thurston Pickering opens a mysterious jar he’s found in the attic of his old house, he gets more than he bargained for. Soon, a green-skinned genie named Malthasar appears, charming the thirteen fireflies Thurston has collected in the jar. Each one offers a wish, a chance to fix every problem in Thurston’s life, with extra to spare.Good thing. For a twelve-year-old, Thurston has more than his fair share of trouble. No one at school seems to notice him—except for Jason Bean and his pack of bullies. His parents are so busy fighting with each other, they forgot his last birthday. Worst of all, his beloved dog Mollet has recently died, leaving him feeling more alone than ever.But with each wish, Thurston’s life takes a darker and stranger twist, and what at first seems like helpful advice from Malthasar turns out to be something quite different. Can Thurston discover the genie’s true designs—and a way to stop them—before it’s too late?Written for the ten-year-old in all of us, I Wish I May combines twisted humor with modern fantasy to create a satire that speaks to how we approach life’s hardships. From the author of TRUESIGHT and DOPPELGANGER comes this cautionary fable that takes the conventions of comic books and cartoons and examines them in a real-world setting, presenting the reader with a tightly woven narrative that is at turns darkly funny and tartly sweet.“Middle graders will cheer Thurston onward in this quick-moving fantasy adventure that speaks to the question boys ask themselves so often: ‘I wonder what would happen if I just…?’ A warm welcome to this new would-be hero and his un-put-down-able story with its deliciously old-fashioned and unexpected ending.” — Beth Kanell, author of The Darkness Under the Water and The Secret Room

Kim was inspired to write this book as a child based on her own experiences. At a young age she remembers learning that often people say things they don't mean and that they need to be careful what they wish for. Words have a great deal of power and there is something to be said for unanswered prayers. Not all wishes are meant to become a reality, which can be a blessing in disguise as life reveals itself.

From the Life of Willa Havisham--the next story!Willa Havisham is Cape Cod's summer girl, and this summer brings new things for everyone. Most notably, a long-lost brother Willa never knew existed. While Willa's mother, the famous wedding planner, is not so excited about this discovery (it's Willa's father's son), Willa wants to know everything there is to know about this new boy, including why it took him so long to find her. Between family, friends, and Willa's new secret project, it's going to be quite a summer!

In I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, three children, ages eight, ten, and twelve, find a bottle on the beach from which a frog appears, an orange and purple frog with just a tinge of green and yellow across its back. This frog speaks perfectly good English but not a word of Latin, French, Spanish, or Lower Mongolian. He eventually agrees to fetch out his bottle mate who, according to tradition, gives three wishes to children who find the bottle. The genie appears or was all this just the children s imagination? The genie refuses to grant them the traditional three wishes but insists they can have all the WISHES they want, with a few very practical conditions. This leads the children to a series of adventures such as helping their widowed neighbor put on a happy face, getting ill from eating too much ice cream, and confronting counterfeiters/kidnappers. Ann is kidnapped but rescued with the help of the genie. Then Dan is kidnapped, escapes but is lost in a dismal swamp where he faces alligators, rattlesnakes, and bears. With help from the genie, Ann and Dan find a way to rescue him. Through these adventures, the children learn that, although there is nothing particularly magic about WISHES coming true, the world is a much more magical place than they had realized. They convince the genie to allow them to share having all the WISHES they want with all the children of the world. This book is their attempt to explain to all children how they can have their realistic WISHES come true. After all their adventures, Ann is convinced the genie is real, Van isn t sure. He will need a few days or a hundred years to decide. And Dan is certain there is no such thing as a genie except in their imagination. I wish you may; I wish you might, know for sure which one is right!