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Harkey, Faith

Genuine Sweet

277 pp. | Clarion | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-28366-4 $16.99
(3) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Genuine Sweet is a wish fetcher. The one hitch: she can't grant her own wishes. Despite her own poverty, Genuine sets up shop granting wishes--one "wish biscuit" at a time--while implementing a town barter system. The responsibility to solve bigger issues such as world hunger weighs heavily on this sympathetic and straight-talking narrator without weighing down readers' enjoyment.
Reviewer: Andrea Curtis

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