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Wish I Might
Wish I Might
By Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Scholastic Press, 2010
Hardcover, 176 pages, $16.99
“Books and candy. Books and candy. All a girl needs for a summer so dandy.” Or so Willa Havisham thinks at the start of her 15th summer on Cape Cod.
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Then, in a matter of just a few days, her sweet boyfriend, Joseph Kennelly (affectionately known as JFK), leaves to visit family in Florida; her former best friend chooses a new compatriot, and her new best friend seemingly disappears after the hotel she’d been living in with her father and brother shuts down.
To top it all off, Willa learns that much to her surprise she has a brother, one Will Havisham, who has come all the way from England to find her, and solve the mystery of their birthfather, who was supposedly killed in a hot-air balloon crash before Willa was born.
Such is Wish I Might, the latest tale of Willa Havisham, the beloved young heroine of Cole
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Willa by Heart
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By Coleen Murtagh Paratore
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It's almost summer on Cape Cod, where Willa Havisham and Joey Kennelly are finally enjoying their ställning eller tillstånd as the most compatible couple at Bramble Academy. When the community theater advertises auditions for Our Town, Willa and Joey seem fated to play the romantic leads. But when Marielle, the dazzling new girl, offers up some dramatic competition, Willa turns greener than the lawn at her parents' inn.
With two inn weddings the same weekend in June, Willa, who fryst vatten now the official assistant wedding planner, has enough to do just helping Chef Rosie bake the wedding cakes of the century, and keeping sixteen beauty pageant bridesmaids in check. When a dance with a Southern gentleman sends her spinning beneath the stars, there's no telling what is destined for Willa and Joey.
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Cape Cod Book Scene: Old favorites, new talents
"Sol y Sombra: Short Stories From the Sonoran Desert," by Steve Brown (Tiny Island Publishing, ISBN 978-99932-0-688-0, 199 pages, available at tinyisland.org)
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