Keep Calm and Sparkle On! by Sarah Aronson

Author:Sarah Aronson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

uses her wands unsafely

refuses or fails to grant a wish

is guilty of wasting sparkles

Rule Four B: Fairy godmothers in retraining (also known as Worsts) are automatically on probation. If they fail or refuse to grant a wish (or use too many sparkles) or do anything unsafe, they will need to return to Level One or retire.

Rules Four A and Four B were even worse than Three C.

It was so unfair and confusing.

All Isabelle wanted was to make princesses and regular girls happy. She didn’t want to be a Best. She just wanted to be good. Or even average. Isabelle threw the book on the ground right between the girlgoyles. The gusts of wind turned the pages one after another until Isabelle spied a page covered in hearts and flowers and mushy testimonials from fairy godmothers. And also princesses. Most of them started, “When I wished on a star …”

This gave Isabelle a great idea.

The next morning (or, if you’re counting, Day Thirteen), right as the sun began to rise (but Isabelle could still see the moon), she took one sparkle out of her wand and for some reason—she had no idea why—imagined playing catch with her mom. She also imagined Nora’s house and then Nora’s school and the tree where Isabelle had met Samantha. Maybe Samantha just needed a signal from Isabelle—a reason to wish.

Isabelle used her wand like a magical fishing pole and catapulted the sparkle high into the air. When it hit the sky, it looked like a shooting star.

And then Isabelle listened.

This time, she didn’t have to wait long to hear something wonderful. It was singing. A beautiful singing voice. Definitely princess caliber. And whoever she was, she was singing about wishes and all kinds of gifts from the heart.

Isabelle beamed. Clotilda was right! Samantha must be the perfect regular girl for her. She was sure that somewhere in that book it said that fairy godmothers who heard their princess’s (or regular girl’s) wishes loud and clear had a strong bond and could always grant their wishes, lickety-split!

In other words, as Samantha wished, “I really want to be in the show. It doesn’t have to be a big part. Just a little one. I really, really, really want it,” Isabelle felt a bolt of confidence.

She didn’t care that technically, three reallys did not equal one I wish. Isabelle was tired of waiting. She figured an I want with some reallys was as good as an I wish. Unfortunately, Isabelle was wrong. But she didn’t know that. So she grabbed her packet of sparkles and loaded them into her wand. Then she imagined the tree and puffed down to the regular world.

She landed (with a thump) next to the spot where the really reallys had been uttered.

Luckily, it was a quiet thump. And the tree was by some shrubs, so no one saw her. This was a good thing, because one of the difficult parts of getting a regular girl was that regular girls scared easily. They didn’t necessarily believe in fairy godmothers.

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