“You Wish” by Mandy Hubbard is a fun and interesting young adult’s fiction book. It talks about Kayla’s 16th birthday and how messed up it was. Her mother plans parties for a living and kind of over does Kayla’s. Kayla does not like it but has to go to it. Even worse her best friend, Nicole, won’t be there because she is on a date with her boyfriend, Ben. (Ben was Kayla’s Super-Secret Mega Crush since the day they met at Flaming Geyser. Flaming Geyser is a sort of river in Enumclaw, Washington.) When it is time to blow out her candles she wishes, “I wish all my birthday wishes actually came true… because they never freakin’ do!” The next morning she woke up with a pink My Little Pony outside her window! (And the day after that there is a life supply of gumballs in her room!)
The author Mandy Hubbard is the author of ten teen novels including this one. Some of which are under her pen name Amanda Grace. Mandy grew up in Enumclaw Washington, which is the setting in the book “You Wish”. She loved reading but wasn’t, at the time, into writing. Once she found her love for writing she started her first book. A few years later her first book was published in 2006. Then in 2010 her second book, “You Wish”, was published. Now she is scheduled to have a book ready every two years.
I thought one of the themes in this book was friendship. I thought that Kayla was still loyal to Nicole even though Nicole wasn’t. She did not turn mean towards her instead she tried hard to become friends again. She acted maturely. So the theme I found was friendship.
I thought the book was funny and cool. Once you start the book you can’t really stop reading till you finish. (Yeah, for me it was that interesting.) I kept wanting to know what her next wish was. So if you are in to crazy birthdays, weird teen love, and change then I would recommend this book. It is easy to read and extremely entertaining!