title: Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories
author:  Megan Whalen Turner 
description: &#8220;An ebullient collection. Delightful.&#8221; (The New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />&#8220;A refreshing first book, this introduces Turner as an entertaining, original storyteller with something to say.&#8221; (ALA Booklist (starred review))<br /><br />&#8220;Turner employs an assortment of folk- and fairy-tale elements with freshness and ease.&#8221; (Bulletin of the Center for Children&#8217;s Books)<br /><br />&#8220;Deftly told. Combines a shrewd wit with an eye for the endearingly absurd. A fine debut.&#8221; (The Horn Book)<br /><br />&#8220;The inventiveness and control shown here augur well for Turner&#8217;s future endeavors.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)
zlib_text: Scarlett Wakefield 01 – Kiss Me Kill Me
  
  by Lauren Henderson
  
  one
  
  BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
  
  On January 1, I made two wishes. I know it’s supposed to be resolutions, but
  the two things I really wanted you can’t exactly make happen, like you can
  with resolutions.
  
  I wished to kiss Dan McAndrew. And I wished to have breasts, instead of two
  flat pancakes on my chest. God, how I hated it when girls would come by and
  flick their fingers on my back between my shoulder blades and laugh mockingly
  because there wasn’t a bra fastening there, because I didn’t need to wear one.
  
  (Actually, that’s three wishes, isn’t it? One kiss plus two breasts equals
  three, the magic number.)
  
  Cut to June, nearly six months later, when I’d pretty much given up hope that
  I would get either of those things, ever. I had resigned myself to being flat-
  chested and unkissed for the rest of my life.
  
  And then everything happened at once, and my life was changed. Though not, I
  might add, for the better.
  
  Be careful 