In the first lesson, Sarah passed me a note, It read, I’m Bree’s best friend now in big blue texta on the front and on the back, in pencil, So you’ll have to sit next to Sharnie.
Nobody sat next to Sharnie. She was the meanest girl in the whole school and her chinese burns hurt for hours and hours. It wasn’t fair. Sarah and I had been best friends for years – I couldn’t even remember when we hadn’t been.
Life is not going well for Ruby. Her mother is having another baby, and there are complications with the pregnancy. Her father is too busy caring for her to worry too much about Ruby. Then she has a falling out with her best friend.
One day when Ruby gets home from school she finds Mrs Wiseman, the new lady living across the street, in the kitchen. Ruby’s Mum had to go to hospital and Ruby has to be looked after by an old lady she hardly knows.
Ruby gradually gets to know the somewhat eccentric Mrs Wiseman (Magda) although the more she gets to know her, the more mysterious she becomes. Ruby also befriends Bailey, a boy who with his two friends are known as The Three Geeketeers.
Magda turns out to be a wonderful support for both Ruby and Bailey and there may just be more to her than meets the eye. The same goes for the the little pony figurine she gave Ruby. Magda called it the Wish Pony.
A sweet little story for younger readers that acknowledges life can be difficult but opens the possibility that there is still room for a little magic in the world, even if that magic is subtle and unnoticed.
