The Wishmakers by Tyler Whitesides is a very funny book about wishes and their consequences.
One day, twelve-year-old Ace opens a peanut butter jar without reading the fine print and releases a genie named Ridge. The good news: He’s now a Wishmaker and may make as many wishes as he likes. The bad news: For every wish, the Universe imposes a consequence and he has just thirty seconds to decide whether to accept. The worse news: The Universe has given him a quest, and unless he completes it in seven days, all the world’s cats and dogs will turn into zombies.
Things get even more complicated when he meets Tina and Jathon, other young Wishmakers with quests of their own that seem to conflict with his. And things get more complicated still as they make more and more wishes with consequences on top of consequences (which may last for an hour, a day, a week, or forever). For example, at one point, whenever anyone says Tina’s name, she claps, and whenever anyone claps, Ace’s shoelace comes untied. Ace also accepts a day without his left arm, a week without being able to read, and a lifetime with a green tongue. It all adds up to a fast-paced and zany adventure.
Larrabee and I both enjoyed this book and are looking forward to the sequel, The Wishbreaker. It’s coming soon!
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I love these kind of books, especially to read aloud. Thanks for featuring this fun tale as it will balance the heaviness of the topics in what I’ve been reading in MG recently.
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You’re right. This book would make a good read aloud! And it’s appropriate for kids who’d be too young to read a book this long by themselves.
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Ooh, this one is sitting on in my TBR pile! I’ll have to move it up to the top. I need to read more funny books.
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My 9yo often reads in the car, and whenever I hear him chuckling out loud in the backseat, I add his book to my TBR pile. 🙂
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I’m not usually a big fan of zombies because I’ve never liked ‘scary’ books; but this plot sounds like fun! Thanks for the recommendation for MMGM, Beth.
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This one has genies–but no zombies (hope that’s not too much of a spoiler!). It has action and suspense, but it’s not scary.
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What an excellent read for tweens. I know I would have devoured a story like this at age 12. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh, my. This sounds soooo good. I haven’t heard anything about this book, but I sure will be looking for it. Thanks for telling me about it.
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Nominations close tomorrow (Monday) for Cybils, the blogger awards for children’s books. If you haven’t nominated your favorites yet, here’s the link for placing your books published between October 16, 2017 and October 15, 2018 into the nominations pool: http://www.cybils.com/2018/10/the-2018-nominations-are-now-open.html
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