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Book Review Of Wish 'By Barbara O' Conner

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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. …show more content…

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

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