Laurel Snyder (Penny Dreadful) is a must-read author of middle-grade fiction.
Twelve-year-old Rebecca heads to her grandmother's house in Atlanta with her mother and baby brother, leaving her father behind in Baltimore. Her parents might be separating, she has to start a new school mid-year, and she has no idea when she'll see her friends and her home again. Then Rebecca finds an old bread box in her grandmother's attic--a bread box that grants wishes. If it's a real thing and will fit inside the box, it's hers! She tries to use her wishes to make her life in Atlanta easier, fit in with the cool crowd, get her parents back together--but then everything catches up with her. Where exactly does the bread box get stuff? Are her attempts to get back to Baltimore only making things worse? --Jenn Northington, events manager at WORD bookstore