The Wedding Planner's Daughter (The Wedding Planner's Daughter #1)

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		The Wedding Planner's Daughter (The Wedding Planner's Daughter #1)
		The Wedding Planner's Daughter (The Wedding Planner's Daughter #1)

基本信息·出版社：Aladdin
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：2006年05月
·ISBN：141691854X
·International Standard Book Number：141691854X
·条形码：9781416918547
·EAN：9781416918547
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry-cordial eater, and quite possibly the world's worst wisher. But when she and her glamorous single mother, Stella, move to Bramble, Cape Cod, Willa's wishes begin to come true: She makes her first-ever best friend, Tina. She bonds with her hip, candy-making Nana. And best of all, steely Stella is falling for Willa's English teacher, Sam -- he's perfect dad material! But before Willa can marry off her mother, or dance with her adorable crush, Joseph, a pit gets stuck in the wishing well....

Can Willa undo the damage before Stella misses her chance to say "I do"?
媒体推荐 "This book is as sweet a confection as the cherry cordials its twelve-year-old protagonist is so fond of eating."

-- School Library Journal

"This smart and funny fairy tale stays hopeful and enchanting, even as it touches on the more difficult aspects of love. Romantic and real."

-- Kirkus Reviews

"A sweet little morsel"

-- Publishers Weekly
文摘 Chapter 9: Beach Glass

"Hope" is the thing with feathers --

That perches in the soul --

And sings the tune without the words --

And never stops -- at all --

-- Emily Dickinson

"Nana!" I shout, bursting into Clancy's Candy. "I need your help. I just ran into Sam Gracemore, literally, and I invited him for a picnic on Memorial Day."

"Way to go, Willa," Nana laughs. "Now we're cooking with gas." She hands me a piece of yellow-and-green-striped taffy. "Try this. I'm calling it Lemmego Lime."

"Mmmm, nice, Nana." The smooth candy slides on my tongue and sticks to the roof of my mouth. "Almost as good as Cabot's, but really, what should we do?" I love saying "we." It's nice having a matchmaking accomplice. And Nana's pretty clever for an old bat. That's what Nana calls herself, "pretty clever for an old bat."

"I'm glad you invited him, honey. That ought to get the beach ball rolling."

"But Nana, Stella will be furious. She'll ground me for a week. And the Chatham soccer tournament is next weekend, and if I miss practice..."

"Tell Stella I invited him." This would be one of Nana's "little white lies that never hurt a sand flea."

"No, I can't."

"Sure you can. Tell Stella I ran into him in the Stop & Shop in Mashpee and the poor guy's cart was filled with frozen dinners and I felt sorry for him."

"Okay, Nana. I'll try."

Nana ties up a bag of Lemmego Lime. "Good luck, honey."

It's a perfect beach day, and Mother will be at the reception all afternoon. At home I make a tuna fish sandwich and pack a nectarine, chips, soda. I find my sunscreen, pull my towel off the line, then grab a sweatshirt in case it gets windy. Everybody talks about the wind on Cape. Northeast, southwest, gusty, gale. We've got as many words for wind as Eskimos have for snow. I throw my stuff in the basket of my bike and sail.

You can get to Sandy Beach down ten different streets, but I always take Bluff because
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