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Wish on a Unicorn (A Puffin Book)
Author: Karen Hesse
Book Information
Publisher: Puffin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Rating: 1

ISBN-13: 9780140349351 - ISBN-10: 0140349359
Publication Date: 2/1/1993
Pages: 108
Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Book Description:
Mags doesn't believe in making wishes. What's the point? If wishes came true, she wouldn't live in a trailer and she wouldn't have to wear ratty clothes to school. But then her sister Hannie finds an old stuffed unicorn, and suddenly Mags' luck starts to change. Mags knows the unicorn can't really be magical, but what's the harm in letting Hannie believe that it is? "Ranks with Betsy Byar's Pinballs and Cynthia Voight's Homecoming in describing families surviving as best they can under economic deprivation." — Publishers Weekly


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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover


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Francesca S. from DELHI, NY wrote on 6/26/2006...


Now I didn't believe a broken-down unicorn could make wishes come true...not for a minute. But what if it could?

Mags wishes she didn't live in a beat-up trailer and have to wear old clothes to school--but she knows better than to wish for things she can't have. Then her sister Hannie finds an old stuffed unicorn in Newell's field, and unbelievable things start to happen. Mags gets the new clothes she's always wanted, and feels popular and pretty for the first time. Although she knows that the unicorn can't really be magic, Mags doesn't want to lose her new friends--even if it means telling Hannie to believe in something that can't possibly be true....