Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories (Puffin Short Stories) - Softcover

Turner, Megan Whalen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140386726 ISBN 13: 9780140386721

Publisher: Puffin, 1998

Synopsis

In a collection of stories by the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Thief, a leprechaun is sighted in a small New Hampshire town, an inner-city boy goes back in time to prehistoric Sweden, and a ghost haunts her home, now a factory site. Reprint.

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About the Author

Megan Whalen Turner is the bestselling and award-winning author of stand-alone novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief. She has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. She has won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature and was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. She worked as a bookseller for seven years before she started writing. Her first book was a collection of short stories called Instead of Three Wishes. Megan Whalen Turner lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-8?Seven short stories in which fantasy mingles with the everyday lives of ordinary people. In the first, a leprechaun sighting brings an excess of tourists to a small New England village. In the next, a boy goes back in time and makes himself a hero by claiming to be a killer of roaches. In "Aunt Charlotte and the NGA Portraits," a girl is sent into a painting to search for a missing object that turns out to be a selkie skin. In the title story, an elf owes three wishes to a girl who keeps rejecting his efforts. In "The Baker King," a kingdom keeps waiting for its prince to return and finds that he is there all the time?but in a most unlikely place. Each selection has an unexpected twist at the end that will surprise readers but that logically fits the tale. Turner does a fine job of creating time and place and imbues the selections with a mild humor that will elicit gentle chuckles and smiles. Some of the stories are stronger than others, and not all of them will appeal to the same audience, but all are readable and the best are very good. Several would also make excellent choices for reading aloud.?Jane Gardner Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia
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Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140386726
• ISBN 13: 9780140386721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144