num_pages: 336
description: All seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three months and doesn't have to scrounge for spare change to make sure the electric bill is paid. Emotionally trapped by her unreliable mother Maggie and the tiny cape on which she lives she focuses on her best friend her upcoming audition for a top music school in New York and surviving Maggies latest boyfriendwho happens to be Graces own ex-boyfriends father.Her attempts to lay low until she graduates are disrupted when she meets Eva a girl with her own share of ghosts shes trying to outrun. Grief-stricken and lonely Eva pulls Grace into midnight adventures and feelings Grace never planned on. When Eva tells Grace she likes girls both of their worlds open up. But united by loss Eva also shares a connection with Maggie. As Grace's mother spirals downward both girls must figure out how to love and how to move on.
language: English
title: How to Make a Wish
publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers