If I Had One Wish
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If I Had One Wish is a young adult novel by Jackie French Koller, about a teenager named Alex Lansing, whose little brother Stevie is always getting him in trouble. The book was first published in 1991.
Plot[]
One day an old woman grants Alex one wish for his kindness to her. Alex uses it to wish that his little brother Stevie had never been born; to his horror, it comes true. Although no one else remembers Stevie, and Alex's life is in some ways better now, he is still guilt-stricken, and desperately tries to find a way to reverse his wish.
Adaptation[]
In 2003, the story was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie titled You Wish!.
First edition[]
- Little, Brown & Co., 1991 (ISBN 0-316-50150-6)
Categories:
- 1991 American novels
- American novels adapted into films
- American young adult novels
- American novels adapted into television shows
- Novels by Jackie French Koller
- 1990s young adult novel stubs