Wish

Charlie Reese finds herself living with an aunt and uncle whom she has never met. Charlie, who comes from a disfunctional family situation wishes for the love and acceptance in a normal family. Each day she wishes for this. As she begins to adjust to life with her aunt, uncle, and new friend Howard

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her anger seems to become more controled. Charlie also identifies with a stray dog in the community and is determined to make it her pet. Finally Charlie begins to feel accepted and part of a family.

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Charlie has been making wishes daily. She's been moved out of her home to live with her aunt and uncle as her mom can't get out of bed and her dad is in a correctional facility. Her aunt and uncle are wonderful people, she meets a great friend named Howard, a former stray named Wishbone, and she is

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angry. As these relationships grow, her life starts to change.

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Charlie's dad, Scrappy, is in jail and her mom has to get her feet back on the ground and her head together before the state will let her live with her again...so she's in backwards Colby with her aunt and uncle instead of in Raleigh where she should be, so she wishes - every opportunity she gets.

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As she gets to know her aunt and uncle, makes a few friends and gets herself a stray dog for a pet Charlie realizes that what shes wishing for might look a little different than she planned.

Cute story - a little message heavy, but between Charlie's sassiness, her aunt's love, and the dog most girls will love this story.

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Everyone likes a story about a person trying hard to fit in, gain friends, do the right thing, and succeed.
This story is about a girl whose family fell apart and who ended up in foster care and was turned over to her mother's sister's family. There she had to find and make new friends and fit into

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the customs of the new family. She made a wish every day, same wish. In the end she realized she had reached her wish. Along the way she learns to appreciate others who care, even if their backgrounds are much different than hers. She wants a dog. She works on that as well. She becomes pretty good at school and helps while being helped tutoring at school with her peers. Al of it takes a lot of effort but in the end she matures, fits in and the school system gains a loyal good student with good friends. A very nice story but she does have to struggle and there is homesickness, especially in the early half of the story.

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Charlie Reese is a fiesty 11 year old whose first reaction to situations is usually a heated one. Her father is in a "correctional facility" and her mother has trouble functioning day-to-day. Charlie doesn't want to live with her Aunt Bertha and Uncle Gus in rural North Carolina and she certainly

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doesn't need a red-headed boy with an up/down walk to befriend her. She's made the same secret wish every day for forever and it's coming true does not have to do with living in that backwoods place. But as she catches and takes in a stray dog, and settles into the peace and comfort of being accepted and loved for who she is, Charlie begins to see the worth of unconditional love. This 227 page book would be good for a book discussion for grades 4-6.

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children's middlegrade fiction (girl with dad in jail and mom with severe depression finds new home and friend living with aunt in rural NC)
abandoned on p. 52. This was ok, just seemed to be another story about a middlegrade girl needing someone to talk to. Her whole 'thing' is making wishes and

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knowing all the different ways you can make wishes, and in the very final chapter she gets her wish, and know what it is? Big surprise, it's to belong to a family. The book is perfectly fine and I bet many readers will enjoy it, but there's nothing to make it stand out amongst the other middlegrade novels out there.

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Sweet, scrappy, kid lands in a better place kind of story. Charlie is full of fight and challenges, but she ends up in a small town in North Carolina with her aunt and uncle and family full of really nice friends down the road. She finds a dog to love, and a community that cares about her, and she

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knows more about wish traditions than you can imagine.

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The book reads a little like a small southern town based Nancy Drew, but I would highly recommend it for any kid in a foster home or displaced situation. Its central theme is managing your feelings, love and hope.