Fifty-cent wish

Author: Britan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: To further allow young readers to experience classics and appreciate excellence, Xinlei Publishing House launched a large-scale prize-winning writing campaign titled "Read Award-Winning Novels, Write Reading Testimonials, and Visit Times Square in New York to Find the Crickets" across the country from September 2004 to August 2005. Young readers could submit their reflections on reading any book in this series to Xinlei Publishing House (No. 35 Xikang Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300051) between September 2004 and March 2005. Outstanding essays selected would be published in Writing Correspondence, Primary School Students' Essays, Fairyland, and Xinlei Publishing House's website. The publisher would also fund two winners of the first prize and one outstanding organizer of the campaign to travel to New York in the summer of 2005 to visit the famous crickets from the works of children's literature author Selden in Times Square, as well as Disneyland in Los Angeles and Universal Studios Hollywood.· is the owner of a grocery store in the village of Wizard Tree. He tells us about a series of strange events happening in the village. At the church fellowship meeting held in Wizard Tree Village, a strange dwarf named Ted Brin arrived. He claimed that for just fifty cents, he could sell you a card with a red dot that would make one of your wishes come true. Eleven-year-old Polly is a tactless and ill-tempered girl who has made many enemies. Her wish is to be liked by everyone. Rowena is a frivolous girl who began dating at the age of fifteen. She fell for Henry Poppel, who comes to the town twice a year to sell farm tools, and her wish is to have him stay by her side forever. Sixteen-year-old Adam is worried about the drought and lack of water in his family's farm. He no longer wants to go to the distant Spider River to fetch water, and his wish is for water to be everywhere on the farm. In the end, all three of their wishes came true in unexpected ways. This book won the 1998 Newbery Honor for Children's Literature.