Kristin Harmel grew up wanting to be a famous rock star, until she realized she can’t sing. As in, she scares people away. So she turned to writing. When You Wish is her first novel for teens; she’s also the author of three novels for adults: How to Sleep with a Movie Star, The Blonde Theory, and The Art of French Kissing. Kristin is a reporter for People magazine and appears once a month as the “Lit Chick” on the nationally syndicated morning TV show The Daily Buzz. She lives in Orlando, Florida, where you might catch her singing bad karaoke.

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Published by Delacorte Press
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Kristin Harmel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harmel, Kristin.
When you wish / Kristin Harmel.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When sixteen-year-old pop singing sensation Star Beck learns that her father, who left when she was three, has been writing to her for six years, she disguises herself, leaves her controlling mother and adoring fans behind, and goes to find him—and, perhaps, a normal life—in St. Petersburg, Florida.

[1. Fame—Fiction.  2. Singers—Fiction.  3. Popular music—Fiction.  4. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.  5. Fathers and daughters—Fiction.  6. Saint Petersburg (Fla.)—Fiction.]  I. Title.
PZ7.H2116Whe 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2007020472

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