Charlie has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to Blue Ridge Mountains of Colby at the to live with family she barely knows ( her aunt and uncle ), it seems unlikely that her wish will come true. Until she meets Wishbone, a stray dog who she now loves, and Howard, a boy who surprises Charlie with how he acts. Suddenly Charlie is in a serious problem of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.
I think her wish is to have
a family, a true family.
