The book I chose to write about is wish . The author of Wish is Barbara O’Conner. Charlie Reese is sent to Blue Ridge Mountains(North Carolina) to live with her aunt and uncle , Bertha and Gus.this book was published in august 2016.
Charlie Reese is a third grader sent away from her hometown because her father Scrappy was sent to a corrections facility because he liked to fight a lot that’s actually the reason they call him scrappy . Charlie is much like her father , very rough and mean . Charlie’s mother is very lazy and doesn’t really care about Charlie. Her mother lies in bed all day and doesn’t get up . Charlie’s older sister Jackie who is about to graduate high school gets to stay in her hometown of Raleigh . Jackie stays with her best friend Carol Lee ( the book doesn’t describe Carol Lee ) . Howard Odom is her neighbor / friend . Howard Odom is a very nice kid. Bertha describes him using the expression he wouldn’t hurt a fly. The genre of this book is fiction.
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Since she is not old enough to live by herself so she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle , Bertha and Gus .She has been making a wish that her “broken” family will be together again . While she is in Colby she meets a boy named Howard Odom . Although she was very mean to him he still befriended her . One day Charlie was walking home from school and a stray dog came up to her . Charlie named him Wishbone . After a couple of days living in Colby she was told that she was going to live with her mom , sister