The Wish Stealers is a great book that is very mysterious.  This book is about a girl named Griffin Penshine who got tricked into getting a free box of Indian-Head Pennies. Actually, the pennies were stolen wishes from a fountain back in the 1900’s. The pennies were stolen from an old woman named Mariah who used to work in a hotel that had a huge fountain outside. Many people would go to the fountain and make wishes and throw coins in them. Mariah thought that if she got the pennies, she would get the people’s wishes. Instead, it turned out that if she stole the pennies, it would be bad luck. Since Griffin accepted the pennies, the bad luck got passed down to Griffin. Griffin is a good person and doesn’t want anyone to have the bad luck that she and Mariah had. She now, has to figure out either to trick someone accept the pennies or would she have to return the stolen wishes? IF she tells anyone about the stolen wishes, then she would have bad luck for the rest of her life. When everybody keeps questioning her about how weird she has been acting, she has to choose to tell lies, or tell them. Then….she finds out that her grandma knew Mariah!!! Her grandma also said that she was a selfish person. You have to read the book to find out what happens next!!

-Katherine D.