6/20/2023 0 Comments Gail carson levine books![]() ![]() The spell will only be in effect at Claverford until graduation, which is only three weeks away. ![]() It is only after the spell begins to work that Wilma realizes her error. She wishes to be the most popular student at her school, Claverford. In return, the woman grants Wilma one wish. One morning while dreading yet another day of isolation, Wilma gives up her subway seat to an elderly woman who looks a bit faint. Suzanne, a particularly nasty classmate, takes every opportunity to ask if Wilma has sniffed an anus lately. ![]() Anonymous woofs and snuffles follow her down the school corridor. She describes in loving detail the joys of doghood, waiting anxiously for “Beloved Wilma” to come home, lifting a leg to pee, and sniffing a Dalmatian's rear. Her existence defines unpopular not only is she friendless, her clueless Language Arts teacher has read aloud a pointofview assignment in which Wilma spends a day as her Airedale Terrier, Reggie. Wilma is at the end of the most excruciating eighth-grade year. Set in New York City, this is a highly entertaining, funny, poignant modern fairy tale of a lonely adolescent who receives the sudden gift of popularity. ![]()
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