The Wish / Gail Carson Levine / 197 pages

Wilma Sturtz is invisible and miserable at school.  She desperately wants to fit in and have friends, but she seems confined to the loners' group.  When she offers her seat on the bus to an elderly lady, the lady repays her by offering her one wish.  She wishes to be the most popular girl in school.  Instantaneously she is.  Her home phone rings constantly and the most popular girls, who ignored her before, love her.  Unfortunately, she realizes that the old lady was right she doubted the wisdom of Wilma's wish.  With graduation, will the spell end as she and all her new found friends leave school?  Wilma learns that friendship really is magic and the best way to have a friend is to be one.