13 Gifts: A Wish Novel [Paperback]

It doesn't take long for Tara Brennan to realize that breaking into school to steal a goat is not a good idea. As punishment for her crimes, Tara's parents send her to the sleepy town of Willow Falls to stay with relatives she hardly knows, including her strange younger cousin Emily. Tara quickly learns that Emily isn't even remotely the strangest person in town. There's a boy who sings at the bottom of an empty pool, two best friends who use blackboards to communicate, and a girl who may or may not be dating the world's hottest teen movie star.



Due to another lapse in judgment, Tara finds herself beholden to perhaps the strangest person of all: Angelina D'Angelo. If Tara can't collect thirteen mysterious objects for the old woman in time for her thirteenth birthday, the consequences will be REALLY BAD. With a big dose of birthday magic, Tara's adventures take her and her new friends to places they never thought they'd find, some in the real world, and a lot deep inside themselves.

Wendy Mass is the author of award-winning books for young readers, including11 Birthdays,Finally,13 Gifts,The Last Present, and the Twice Upon a Time series:Rapunzel, The One With All the Hair;Sleeping Beauty, The One Who Took the Really Long Nap; andBeauty and the Beast, The Only One Who Didn't Run Away; as well asA Mango-Shaped Space,Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life,Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall,Leap Day,Every Soul a Star, andThe Candymakers. She lives with her family in New Jersey.