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Wish
Wish
Wish
Audiobook4 hours

Wish

Written by Barbara O'Connor

Narrated by Suzy Jackson

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

4.5/5

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About this audiobook

From award-winning author Barbara O'Connor comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers the true meaning of family. Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same silent wish since fourth grade, hoping that some day it will come true. When her irresponsible parents send her to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family members she doesn't know, she needs that wish to come true more than ever. A stray dog, a great friend, and the love of a big-hearted aunt and uncle just might make it happen.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 30, 2016
ISBN9781501944673
Wish
Author

Barbara O'Connor

Barbara O’Connor was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. She has written many award-winning books for children, including the New York Times–bestselling Wish, Wonderland, How to Steal a Dog, Greetings from Nowhere, and Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a cute moving book. I loved Charlie. She has a hard life and is dealing with it the best way she can. I also love all the characters in her community. Howard is a great character and best friend. Pineapple!

    2 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It was so sweet and heartwarming and it really makes me feel lucky to have a nice family

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love this book so much is the best book I’ve ever read you should read it it’s amazing I like the person your voice Siri to the story I would recommend this book because it’s not too inappropriate or scary the girl it’s a little bit sassy and rude and she likes to punch a little bit and she goes to a new school in her dad is in jail he’s in jail for fighting and her mom will not get out of bed ever. And she finds a dog name wishbone that makes her feel comfortable. So please read it????

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It was great I read 2 hours a day I finished it in a week

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is so amazing! My 11-year-old son said, “Wow! She’s a really good author,” as we were listening together. It is very well written and amazingly heartwarming. The level of emotion etched into every page will make you thankful for your family. If this book hasn’t won any awards, it really should!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It was amazing I read along and it helped me a lot
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved how this book had a girl who didn’t have the best kind of family but ended up with the best family EVER with a dog!, and lots of cats…….
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    So so cute I
    Ove it so so so cute
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the best book I have ever read. Enough said.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a book for inspiration motivating and life it really was a great book I don’t really like reading when I read this book I realize that all books can be amazing.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Grab your tissues, you are going to need them. Wish is a heart warming story that takes you on one family's journey into the fight against childhood cancer and one young man's extraordinary wish. You will laugh, cry, and get angry (sometimes at the same time), but you will not want to put this one down until the very last word. *I received a copy in exchange for an honest review*
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The story line was so good and I loved the wishes
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    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 knows more about wish traditions than you can imagine.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    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 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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    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 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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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 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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    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. 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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    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 angry. As these relationships grow, her life starts to change.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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 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.