Be Careful What You Wish for Ten Stories

Wish WeekGail Carson LevineWhat would you wish for if you went to a school and everybody in the 6th grade got a wish and knew it would come true? Now you know you need to be careful because you do not want Post Wish Trauma, and your wish will only come true for the week. That's the Way the Fortune Cookie CrumblesLouise HawesYou think your life stinks. Your older sister got the looks, the brains and the talent. Then one night at dinner you get a fortune cookie different than everybody else's. Our Pig, SatinAndrea Davis PinkneyEvery day you wish for a pet pig. You dream of the pig, you have conversations with it. Your mother and grandmother mock your dreams and consider you sour when you sit and wish and dream. Five Djinn in a BottleLiz RosenbergFive little genies trapped in a jar. One grumpy man trying to make careful wishes.Black Sheep of the FamilyPatricia McCormickEver wish one day you would wake up and be told your family wasn't your family? The Fashion ContestCatherine StineYou and your arch rival at school end up in a fashion-walk off for history class. How did you let that happen to your tomboy self? Read and find out.The Reason I will Love John MacFarlane Jr. Until the Day I DieRachael VailThis is an incredibly moving story. It almost brought me to tears. Who has not been touched by cancer? Best in the bunch.Be Careful What You Wish ForJane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. StempleHow would you react if, when you hit a rock with a Karate punch you woke a Genius Loci? You ask him to fix your family because you just learned that your parents are splitting up. He laughs at you and tells you it isn't his department. Beggar's RideA. LaFayeYou wish your twin brothers would be quiet, or considerate or even just less obnoxious.Star Light, Star BrightDeborah WilesYou are poor, at a new school and in a new town. You wish for just one friend, a real friend. What if it seems your wish is coming true?