A fun fantasy adventure for middle school readers.
The Moody Gasping Middle School Series is set in the same school, where sheer weirdness is always on the menu. Each book stands alone and stars new characters, so the stories don't have to be read in order.
Wolfe Webber hates new schools and new schools hate him. On his first day at Moody Gasping Middle School, a mysterious vending machine appears outside the cafeteria. Or has it always been there? Nobody seems to know for sure, and regular money doesn't work in it. Coins are spit right back out.
After Wolfe loses a tooth challenging the ranking class bully, he tapes it up in his locker like a bloody trophy. The next morning, it has been replaced by three gold coins, and they work in the battered old vending machine.The prizes that pop out do the oddest things and cause Wolfe almost nothing but trouble. When one prize does real damage, Wolfe must find a way to fix things, except he is all out of wishing coins. If he can't find a way to get more, his life will be in more danger than even he can imagine.
Recommended for middle school fantasy readers.
This book is a great read for middle school age students. It hooks the reader right at the beginning with the possibility of magic things to come from a vending machine. I would recommend this book and other books by Patricia Srigley to anyone with middle school age students. (M. Sinclair, High School Librarian)Three Wishes Vending Machine was awesome!
All of us enjoyed it immensely and can't wait for the next installment in the series. I read it to my children a few nights in a row as their bedtime story and they kept wanting me to read "just one more chapter" each night! Needless to say none of us got as much sleep that week! Lol (Anne Marie P.)
... was grinning from ear to ear after reading this book. Kept laughing out loud. (Geoff)