The Wish giver

1. The Wish giver By: Bill Brittain

2. Main Characters • Polly Kemp-11 years old girl who lives with her mother. She tends to say what she thinks even if it is mean. • Rowena Jervis-15 year old girl who is in love with Henry Piper. • Adam Fiske-16 year old boy whose dad owns a farm. • Leland and Lenora Wickstaff-twins with blonde hair and freckles who live with their parents. • Agatha Benthorn- • Eunice Ingersoll- • Stew Meat-owns the Coven Tree general store • Thaddeus Blinn- a short, fat man with a big mustache who comes to the town of Coven Tree who claims to grant people’s wishes.

3. Setting • A town called Coven Tree in New England. • It is a town that is familiar with magic. • The story begins on the Saturday of the Coven Tree Church Social.

4. Epilogue-Page 16 • The opening of the book talks about the town of Coven Tree. • Stew, Rowena, Polly and Adam meet Thaddeus Blinn at the Church Social. • Thaddeus explains that he sells wishes for 50 cents. • The people pay him and he gives them a card. Each card is good for only one wish. • Thaddeus warns them to think very carefully before making their wishes. • He tells them that he never visits the same town twice so they will never see him again.

5. Jug-A-Rum • We learn how Polly and the Wickstaff twins became friends. • Leland and Lenora tease Polly about wanting to be friends with Agatha and Eunice. • Polly accidently tears Agatha’s dress and Agatha slaps Polly and says means things. • Polly makes her wish “that people will like her and notice her,especially Agatha and Eunice. • Polly is making frog noises and can’t really talk. When she goes to say something mean she starts croaking like a frog. • Leland and Lenora tell Polly that Agatha and Eunice are planning something mean to get even with Polly. • Lenora tells Polly she thinks that Polly starts craoking when she says bad/mean things

6. Jug-A-Rum continued • Polly overhears Agatha and Eunice plotting to do something mean to her. • Agatha invites Polly over to her house. • Polly says nice things the entire time she is at Agatha’s and doesn’t croak once. Agatha and Eunice try to make Polly mad but she does not fall for it. • Polly leaves Agatha’s house, not wanting to be friends with them after all.

7. “Tree Man” • We are introduced to Rowena Jervis and her family. • Rowena was esxcited because Henry Piper (whom she likes) is coming to town. • Rowena asks her mother if Henry can stay at their house and she says “no”. • Rowena makes her wish, “to have Henry makes roots in Coven Tree” • She did not word her wish correctly and as a result Henry starts turning into a tree. He is really mean to Rowena and she wonders why she ever liked him. • Rowena tells Sam (a young man who works for her father) about Thaddeus Blinn and the wish she made. • Rowena thinks of an idea to free Henry. • Rowena starts to fall for Sam and Sam tells her that he likes her too.

8. “Water, Water Everywhere” • We learn about Adam Fiske and his father’s farm that doesn’t have any water. • Adam had to go to Spider Creek to get water.