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A collection of three novellas explores what happens when three friends make wishes at a pizzeria and get more than they asked for.

Sister Bear learns about the magic of the wishing star, but Brother Bear teaches her that hard work is also important. When Mama Bear teaches the cubs about the wishing star, Sister Bear immediately wishes as hard as she can for the special teddy she saw in a store window. She's thrilled when her wish comes true on her birthday. But what will happen when she sets her heart on a white pony? In this engaging story of essential lessons, Brother Bear...

After a day of watching his strongest sandcastles washed away by a sea that refuses to obey him, Jack wishes for a real castle in which he is king, and that night his wishes come true.

Philippa Fisher, who wants to be able to summon a fairy, is surprised when Daisy, the new girl at school, says she is her fairy godmother--or godsister--who is grudgingly committed to grant three wishes, and Philippa struggles to wish for something that will improve her life instead of making it more difficult.

When her home is threatened by fire, Jessie returns to the magical world of the Realm and visits the mermaids of Under-Sea to search for a wish-stone.

Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her complete her list--with unexpected results.

Readers can glide through the ocean with a young girl in her cozy little submarine, taking a deep dive into the ocean's underwater environments and fascinating sea creatures, in this illuminating journey of maritime magic.

In the tradition of Edward Eager and E.L. Konigsburg, a novel about the excitement—and the dangers—of wishing.
Tess and her brother, Max, are sent for the summer to their aunt’s sleepy village in the English countryside, where excitement is as rare as a good wifi signal. So when Tess stumbles upon an old brass key that unlocks an ornately carved gate, attached to a strangely invisible wall, she jumps at the chance for adventure....

"On their last trip to the laundromat before moving, a mom invites her child to make a wish on a washing machine, which spurs everyone else in the laundromat to share their wishes."--

Nimbus, a lonely pegasus, searches for a fallen star to wish for a friend and meets a unicorn named Kelp along the way.