[LM_NET] Review: The Wish Stealers by Tracy Trivas

[Pamela Thompson <pthomp@SISD.NET>]

The Wish Stealers
by Tracy Trivas
Simon & Shuster (Aladdin), 2010.
281 pages

The Wish Stealers is a treasure of magic, wishes, and lucky Indian head pennies. 
However, some pennies can be unlucky, as Griffin Penshine soon finds out. After 
meeting a very old lady in an antiques shop, Griffin becomes the new caretaker of a 
box of "lucky" pennies. The lady warns Griffin that the pennies are wishes stolen 
from people years before, and that the holder of the wishes must return them to 
their rightful owner or be forever cursed. If Griffin tells anyone about the 
unlucky box, she will never have any of her wishes come true again. And, she can't 
throw away the pennies or the box.

Griffin only wishes for a few things: she wants to be the best bass guitar player 
in history. She wishes her grandmother's health will improve, and that her mother 
will deliver a healthy baby.

But a wish stealer's good wishes never come true--only her bad wishes happen. How 
will Griffin outsmart the curse of the pennies? And how can she, a sixth grader, 
achieve the hardest penny of all: World Peace? The Wish Stealers is a fun read with 
real humor and whimsy.

Half mystery, half comedy, this novel is sure to delight girls ages 9-13. Readers 
of the Ramona series will like Griffin Penshine.

Recommended for collections--grades 4-7.

Just posted to my blog at http://booksbypamelathompson.blogspot.com/


Pamela Thompson, MLIS
Library Media Specialist
Col. John O. Ensor Middle School
13600 Ryderwood
El Paso, TX
915-937-6018
pthomp@sisd.net<mailto:pthomp@sisd.net>

visit my YA novel blog at http://booksbypamelathompson.blogspot.com/


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