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    11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
    11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
    11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
    Audiobook5 hours

    11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel

    Written by Wendy Mass

    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney

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    About this audiobook

    The tantalizing prequel to Avi's bestselling MIDNIGHT MAGIC is now in paperback!

    It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited---after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birthday they haven't shared together. When Amanda turns in for the night, glad to have her birthday behind her, she wakes up happy for a new day. Or is it? Her birthday seems to be repeating iself. What is going on?! And how can she fix it? Only time, friendship, and a little luck will tell. . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9780545238786
    11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
    Author

    Wendy Mass

    Wendy Mass is the New York Times bestselling author of The Candymakers series, Bob, and many other novels for young readers, including the Schneider Family Book Award-winner A Mango-Shaped Space, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (which was made into a feature film), Every Soul a Star, Pi in the Sky, the Twice Upon a Time series, and the Willow Falls series that began with 11 Birthdays. She and her family live in New Jersey.

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    • 5/5
      Fast and light read. Had a hint of magic and humor in it. Characters were easy to enjoy and believable. Great story.

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    • 5/5
      Wendy Mass always does a great job of pulling a reader in and taking them on a journey
    • 5/5
      Because it was funny when they kept repeating there 11th Birthday
    • 5/5
      Very interesting and fun to read. Can’t wait for the next story!
    • 4/5
      It was a nice book to read, I enjoyed it very much
    • 5/5
      Cute, sassy book about a girl, a boy, a repeating shared birthday. Loved it!
    • 4/5
      NOT BAD I THINK.... GOOD? IT'S GOOD I LIKE IT
    • 5/5
      When Leo and Amanda were born, an old woman named Angelina asked their parents to promise that the kids would always celebrate their birthdays together – and they have, until the disaster of their tenth birthday drives them apart. Now the friends are turning eleven, and are having separate parties for the first time in their lives.Amanda’s party is excruciating, and she can’t wait to wake up the next morning and move past it. But when she wakes up, it’s still the morning of her eleventh birthday. How many times will she have to relive turning eleven before she can move on?
    • 5/5
      Everything was great
      I really enjoyed it very much.
      Wendy Mass is very talented
    • 5/5
      It was interesting and a bit funny but most of all it was an adventure
    • 5/5
      Amanda and Leo were born on the same day. They were actually born at the very same hospital! After they shared an accidental first birthday party, the two celebrated all of their birthdays with each other until and became best friends. Amanda and Leo did everything together until their tenth birthday. Their party came with some drama, and Amanda vowed she was never speaking to Leo again after the way he embarrassed her. She hasn’t spoken to him for a whole year, and now that their birthday is here, she can’t help wonder who will show up at her party, and who will be at Leo’s. From the start, her 11th birthday is a bit of a disaster—she has a pop quiz she wasn’t prepared for, her gymnastics try out is terrible, and then her party is even worse. She doesn’t like the “costume” theme her mom planned, especially because her outfit is uncomfortable and her shoes pinch her feet giving her blisters. Plus, almost everyone is at Leo’s amazing party. Amanda can’t wait to go to bed and have her birthday be over and done. Only when she wakes up it’s her 11th birthday again. And each day it keeps happening- no matter what she does to change things. It isn’t long before Amanda and Leo realize they are the only ones reliving this day with “memories of what happened before”. Now they have to figure out how to get to Saturday, the day after their birthday. Can they figure out what to do? Is there any way to get things back on track? What would make for the best 11th birthday? You’ll have to read this realistic fantasy fiction book to find out.

      I have read other books by Wendy Mass, but 11 Birthdays is my favorite book by her so far. Amanda and Leo seem like very realistic kids, and I enjoyed seeing the different ways their birthday played out. It gave me a lot to think about. What would I do if I could relive the same day over and over again? Would I do anything wild to see what would happen? Or would I try to do everything okay and by the rules so I would be able to deal with things the next day if it ever came? I like the stories of friendship and the different turns of events because it showed how all of our actions ripple out— even in ways we do not see. Change one thing about your day and there will be surprise impacts from that act all day (especially if you know how the day went originally). I would recommend this book to anyone in fourth grade and up who enjoy books about friendship and a little bit of magic. I noticed this is the first book in the Willow Falls series. I look forward to checking out the rest.
    • 2/5
      Children's fiction/audio. It's really difficult to pull off this kind of "groundhog day" story without wearing it out. The author does ok with it, considering the mediocre plotline.
    • 4/5
      Wendy Mass is such a great story-teller and never panders to her (pre)adolescent audience -- it makes for enjoyable reading and always makes me wish I thought of that idea! This book is a Groundhog Day-esque repetition of Amanda and Leo's 11th birthday. They have been friends since birth, thanks to the influence of a quirky wise woman who works a little magic. After a misunderstanding and rift at their 10th birthday, the two must reconcile not only for themselves but for the greater good of their community. How they do this (do-over! and over!) is sweet and entertaining. I love that the story still promotes girl-boy friendships just as hormones are starting to kick in.
    • 4/5
      Super sweet story. I thought she captured the age pretty well, except you never would have caught my friends and I dancing in a public setting when we were 11. But I appreciated that there was no romance or even hints in that direction. She also handled the concept in a original way. It would make a good read-aloud to an elementary class, maybe even middle school.
    • 4/5
      Not going to lie, Groundhog Day is my dream-come-true, so this was an enjoyable story for me. I just love the concept. The protags are a bit dense, but that's to be expected from 11 year olds.
    • 3/5
      Fairly well-done 'tween adaptation of the concept also seen in the movie Groundhog Day." Addresses issues of friendship and growing up. I do wish the characters had been a little more complex, richer - more real to me."
    • 4/5
      Very fun fiction story, especially for 5th grade girls! I enjoyed the "Groundhog Day" aspect to Amanda and Leo having to relive their 11th birthday over and over. A great friendship story.
    • 5/5
      This book is about a girl named Amanda and a boy named Leo. When they were growing up they had their birthdays together every year. One year Leo and his friends were talking and his friends asked him why he was friends with a girl and he told them that they had their birthdays together so he didn't want Amanda to be mad, Plus she doesn't have many friends. When her mom came home Amanda was outside crying on the front door step. When Leo's mom told Leo what happened he was embarrassed. In the middle of the book they both keep repeating their birthdays over and over and over again, but they didn't know that it was happening to both of them. It was the enchantment that Amanda's great-grandfather had on him and Leo's great-grandfather had on him; they died and the curse went on to Amanda and Leo when they stopped being friends.Then the very next day they meet each other right in front of the school and decide on a plan on why this is happening to them.At the end of the book they finally stop having their birthdays over and over and over again when it finally turns Saturday. Then they are friends again because the curse is over for now unless they don't have the apple seeds then the cycle starts all over again.I thought this book was great because it had a lot of adventure in it. They had to work together a lot. The plot was very unusual. I didn't know how it was going to end that's why I kept reading it. I liked how the author keeps writing; in every book she wrote there are different characters, not the same ones. It was really exciting because there were some words I didn't now and I solved it. The characters had some hard times but they solved their problems together.
    • 3/5
      This was a cute story in the living-a-day-over-and-over genre. Amanda is stuck in her 11th birthday, and she can't figure out why. Does her fight with her former best friend and birthday-sharer Leo have anything to do with it? I would like to continue with this series, though I hope they all aren't the same premise of living one day over and over. The narrator was pretty good too, so listening to the series could be an option.
    • 4/5
      First off, I started reading this without knowing that the birthday in question - June 5th - is actually my own birthday, and that may have predisposed me a little bit towards liking this book, but I didn't really need any extra incentive: It was a thoroughly charming, light read that I'd recommend for most 9-12 year olds.

      Point A) There's nothing gender-y about this book: Although I personally don't think there's such a thing as 'boy books' and 'girl books' you do sometimes come up against kids who are dead set against reading anything they identify as belonging to the other team. It's a fight I'm not going to stop fighting, but in the case of this book, there's no need to fight it - having both male and female main characters, both of whom are fleshed out pretty well (even if we get more of the female MC POV) is a strong selling point.

      Point B) The Groundhog Day on your birthday is a plot that every kid will be able to appreciate: there's nobody who doesn't fantasize about having their day, over and over again. Or reliving a bad day that was supposed to be good until it comes out the right way.

      Point C) It's funny. Not hilarious, but witty little moments here and there that show that Wendy Mass gets how kids think and how friendships really work, that there's jealousy and joy all mixed in and muddled together.

      Point D) It's the first in a trilogy, which is always a selling point for me. I love to revisit good characters, see how they're doing.
    • 3/5
      Wendy Mass does not disappoint fans with her newest novel 11 Birthdays - an excellent new novel about the power of friendship that will delight readers everywhere with is uniqueness and creativity.

      Let me just say that 11 Birthdays could have easily received a 5 star rating. Don't get me wrong - I certainly enjoyed it, but I didn't love it, for one major reason: it's lack of depth. It's certainly an well-written and entertaining story, yet it lacks the depth it needs to receive 5 stars.

      The characters in 11 Birthdays were average compared to other YA novels. The characters lacked the characterization they needed; they ended up feeling quite 1-demensional. They were definitely unique and realistic, but they just didn't have that extra characterization I was looking for.

      The plot is most definitely unique and creative! Before anything else, let me just say that I really enjoy Wendy Mass's writing style! Anyway...the plot is really realistic and creative. It's not like any other YA novel; it's a bit of realistic fiction mixed with a dab of fantasy.

      Wendy Mass is definitely an author to watch and I will definitely continue reading her stories. Young readers will definitely enjoy 11 Birthdays - especially fans of "friendship stories." Until then...Wendy Mass, keep writing! :D
    • 3/5
      This story is about 2 children who happen to share the same birthday. Every year, they have celebrated together until a fight on their 10th birthday destroys their friendship. They each have a horrible 11th birthday, celebrating apart, only to find that this awful day keeps repeating (similar to the movie Groundhog Day).

      I enjoy Wendy Mass' writing style - refreshing and clever with such realistic children characters. This book was a fun family read, but not as moving or memorable as some of her others.
    • 3/5
      This was an interesting book. It reminded me of the movie Groundhog Day with a couple of extra twists. It can get a bit annoying since it is repetitive, but it's still an interesting story.
    • 4/5
      Super sweet story. I thought she captured the age pretty well, except you never would have caught my friends and I dancing in a public setting when we were 11. But I appreciated that there was no romance or even hints in that direction. She also handled the concept in a original way. It would make a good read-aloud to an elementary class, maybe even middle school.
    • 3/5
      I did not like this as much as the rest of the Caudills I have read so far, but it was still pretty good. I thought it was a little slow to start with and I didn't particularly care for Leo which made it harder for me to buy into the story. While I think it was a good thing for Amanda to forgive him, I just didn't have as much sympathy for him as I think Mass wanted me to. Also I would have liked to know what Leo did to fix things with the kid who was giving him a hard time, but it was really Amanda's story so glossing over that was somewhat understandable. Once I got used to the narrator I thought she did a fine job with good voice differentiation among the characters. Listened to Scholastic Audio edition narrated by Kathleen McInerney.
    • 2/5
      I had read a good review of this book, but to me, it was only worthy of an "eh". Not bad, not great, just okay. Somehow this book mustered up an Maine Student Book Award nomination in the 2010-2011 year.
    • 4/5
      Wouldn’t it be great if your birthday was everyday? Well, maybe not if you have a pop quiz, you don’t make the gymnastics team, half your friends don’t come to your party, your mom gets fired from her job, and worst of all, you can’t celebrate it with your (former) best friend. What if you had to re-live this horrible day again, and again, AND again?! That’s exactly what 11-year old Amanda has to do- until she and her friend Leo, who was born on the same day, can figure out how their family’s mysterious past might provide the crucial answers needed to help them get their day just right. This empowering tale of finding out what true friendship is and how personal relationships are affected by even the slightest of actions, is cleverly highlighted by witty humor, audacious (and sometimes defiant) deeds, escalating character development and just a little bit of mystery. Intriguing to both male and female middle school children this skillful story gives the readers the rare opportunity to live vicariously through the characters’ days of “no consequences” while trying to figure out why this crazy experience is happening at all.
    • 4/5
       In the book "11 birthdays" by Wendy Mass; the main characters Amanda and Leo were best friends. They had every birthday together and spent almost everyday together. Until their tenth birthday when Leo’s friend said some mean things about Amanda and she got mad at Leo. Their eleventh birthday was the first birthday they were going to have apart from each other. On their birthday Amanda wakes up to a sponge bob balloon flying around in her room. What Amanda thinks is going to be a great day, party, and weekend never really comes. She was right until she went to bed on her birthday and woke up the next morning to find out that it was her birthday again. As days pass its always their birthday. After days they found out there is a mystery to be uncovered about their ancestors past to get their birthday to stop repeating everyday.11 birthdays is a fun book to read. Getting clues and trying to figure out the mystery as you read the book. Also they mystery to what happened to their ancestors. 11 birthdays is a fun book for people who like figuring out mysteries. I would definitely recommend this book and I would definitely read it again.
    • 4/5
      Amanda and Leo wake up ready for there birthday. There birthday is on the exact same day. They have always spent their birthday together. But the year that they are turning 11 they want to celebrate them separately. After there birthday is over they wake up and realize that it is still there birthday. this happens eleven times. But on the last one they have their birthdays together and they wake up the next day and it isn't there birthday. I loved this book. I love the twist that is in it. I've never read a book like this before. i encourage everyone to read it. This book is worth reading. I hope to read this book again. This book was really good!
    • 3/5
      Very creative premise and a winning heroine.