Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary & Media. From bestselling author Chelsea Sedoti comes a thought-provoking contemporary young adult book about a small desert town filled with Mojave magic where everyone gets to make a wish on their eighteenth birthday. She successfully captures the feelings of uncertainty that come with nascent adulthood, the desire to leave home, and waiting for one’s life to begin. The countdown structure creates a natural hook, and Sedoti ( The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett) makes good use of her what-if premise to give readers much to consider. BOOK REVIEW: As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti Sourcebooks Fire December 2017 Hardcover, 24.99 Reviewed by Steph O’Connell Young Adult 5/10 What if you could ask for anything and get it In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town on the road between nothing and nowhere. He discovers that most wishes have made the wishers’ lives worse, and that a perfect wish may not exist. Eldon decides to research past wishes and their outcomes third-person interludes appear between Eldon’s first-person chapters, detailing various citizens’ wishes. As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti Literary Me Decemby awbreereads Goodreads Description What if you could ask for anything- and get it In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town on the road between nothing and nowhere. Eldon has 25 days to figure out what matters most to him, and everyone has an opinion (his mother pressures him to wish for the money they desperately need to save his sister, who is on life support). For 17-year-old Eldon, his windblown hometown in the Mojave Desert is “the kind of place you wanna leave as quick as you can.” What it isn’t, however, is ordinary: the town’s residents are able to make a wish on their 18th birthday, which comes true.

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