If I Had One Wish

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If I Had One Wish...
AuthorJackie French Koller
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherLittle, Brown & Company
Publication date
1991
Media typePrint
Pages161
ISBN0440408075
OCLC858008528
Adapted as You Wish! (2003)

If I Had One Wish is a young adult novel by Jackie French Koller, about a teenager named Alec Lansing, whose little brother Stevie is always getting him in trouble. The book was first published in 1991.

Plot[edit]

One day an old woman grants Alec one wish for his kindness to her. Alec uses it to wish that his little brother Stevie had never been born; to his horror, it comes true. Although no one else remembers Stevie, and Alec's life is in some ways better now, he is still guilt-stricken, and desperately tries to find a way to reverse his wish.

Adaptation[edit]

In 2003, the story was adapted as a Disney Channel Original Movie titled You Wish!.

First edition[edit]