My Unfair Godmother

I am back on the book recommendation train, people! Because summer isn't over yet, thank goodness, and there is still time for fun reads.*

Perhaps you are that studious, well-behaved kid who sees moving in with your dad and his family for your senior year of high school as the perfect opportunity to reinvent yourself.

As bad. Real bad. Dating a rebel with a motorcycle, eyerolling, sarcasm -- the whole ball of wax. Because your dad (who is a librarian, by the way) has never been there for you after the divorce, so why should you care what he thinks?


Then you get busted for spray painting city hall and being bad is starting to feel lousy. If only you could fix things. Like with magic, yeah, that's the ticket.


Sadly for our heroine, Tansy Miller, a lot more is going to go awry before she can make peace with her dad, his wife, her stepbrother, the mayor, and the police chief's hottie son. When her fairy godmother, Chrysanthemum Everstar, takes her on as an extra-credit project, Tansy rates 78% pathetic on the Pathetic-o-meter.  She has three wishes -- three chances -- to put her life on the awesome track.

                          I picked at my pillowcase dejectedly. "Money won't buy me friends."


                          "If you wish for enough, it will," Chrissy said brightly. "People like to say
                          they can't be bought, but they really can."

Tansy's wish-tasptrophe results in Robin Hood and his merry men holding up convenience stores all over town, a highly unpleasant trip to medieval England, and a nasty ex-fairy targeting Tansy and her future child.  Not to mention the police chief's son is still peeved with her.

It is all extremely hilarious.

                         



*Because you've finished all your required reading, haven't you? I knew you could!