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Starling Academy selects twelve extraordinary students known as the Star Darlings to protect Starland’s precious wish energy. Under strict training, they learn to grant wishes made on birthday candles, shooting stars, dandelions, wishbones, and coins tossed into fountains. Their charge is a covert trip to Wishworld, a place also called Earth, where they must locate the elusive Wisher and succeed before they are trapped forever.
Sage, the first Star Darling to depart, faces the unknown challenges of a new planet while discovering that friendship, teamwork, and careful judgment are crucial to their mission. Along the way, she learns that assumptions can be dangerous and that collaboration is the key to saving Starland.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Shana Muldoon Zappa
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