Snow One Like You: A Wish Novel

by Natalie Blitt

Mia can't wait for the Winter Festival -- it's what her hometown, Flurry, Vermont, is famous for. Plus, maybe she can work up the courage to show the cute new boy, Yoshi, how much fun snowball fights can be.

There's just one problem: the weather forecast isn't predicting a single snowflake before the big day. And what's the Winter Festival without snow?

Canceling the festival would spell disaster for the local businesses, including the cozy inn that Mia's family runs. With the town in chaos, Mia is suddenly at odds with Yoshi and with her best friend, Lark. Can Mia save the festival in time . . . or is she in for a wintry mix of troubles?

Genres: Romance, Christmas, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Childrens

272 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2019

About the author

Originally from Canada, Natalie Blitt grew up on a steady diet of loyalist adventure stories. It wasn’t until she moved to Chicago after graduating from McGill and receiving a journalism degree from the University of King’s College, that she learned that not everybody sees the loyalists as the heroes. Now living in the Chicago-area, she dreams up young adult novels of a different sort: more kissing, less guns, but always a lot of loyalty. Natalie works at an education think tank and lives with her husband and their three sons. She knows a lot about baseball. She has no choice.

Natalie is represented by Rena Rossner at the Deborah Harris Agency.

Reviews

[✧ hayley (the sugar bowl) ✧ · Rating 3 out of 5]

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this is one of those books that is absolutely fluffy and useless but it was cute and the romance was sweet and it was a good christmas break type read. i had fun ✨🎀




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[Nina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very cute and cheesy, and it a very quick read.

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute middle-grade read. Not as Christmassy as I would have liked, but it was still a sweet read. The lack of snow in Vermont reminded me a bit of the movie White Christmas. This dealt with a lot of issues that middle school kids face like blended families, growing apart from friends, and the angst of a first crush.

[Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

2020
Okay this was pretty adorable! And definitely let me relive the way I felt about my first big crush. I loved how embarrassed and sweet Mia would get around Yoshi. And I love how genuinely interested he was in her. I thought their whole dynamic was adorable, all around. And the way her dad acted when they were on their first "date" was totally cute.

I'm glad everything worked out in the end. Especially with Mia and Lark. Although, I do wish Lark would have liked Kyle back! I thought his crush on her was as equally sweet as Mia's crush on Yoshi.

[Abby · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing and really relatable to most girls in middle school.

[Marcela Mahoney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very easy read. Finished in a day.

[Ca1t!Y# · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my third time reading this book. It was still good, but I knew what was going to happen. I enjoy this book because it is a quick, light read.

[Layla Swift · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a cute book! It was a really quick, easy read with a good plot. Some things were really predictable, but still a good book.

[Janelle Hackbarth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this was a cute little story, so I picked it up and read it. And I was right.

Mia lives in a little town in Vermont called Flurry, which is known for its infamous snow festival, and this year, Mia is a Junior service coordinator. However, the forecast predicts no snow. Add that to friend and crush troubles, along with family financial secrets, and Mia has a lot on her plate.

Even though the story takes place near Christmas, I consider this more of a winter story. And that suits me just fine. It works better or as a winter story as a Christmas story.

I can't really nitpick about any one thing I liked, cause I really enjoyed it all. It's a wonderful winter story, and if you like winter stories or middle-grade books, you should definitely read this one.

[NaDell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super cute middle school age book about a town named Flurry that's hosting a Flurry Festival (obviously hoping for snow so it can play on the Flurry name). They've had a festival for decades and now face a festival with no snow in the forecast. The 7th grade class plans the festival and gets approval from the city council. Now that it's Mia's turn to be in charge, how can they make the festival work? Can it work without snow? And why are her mom and stepdad acting strange? Why does her best friend seem so annoyed with her? And does she have a crush on the new boy named Yoshi?
Cute title, cute book, fun story. Super easy relaxing read and just what I need this time of year.

[P.Shull · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a really good book but very very cheesy!

[Maddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this out quickly just to have something to read and it was okay. Pretty cheesy and quite an easy read.

[Audrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/10
Adorable middle grade read!

[Vanessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, the wish novels are so amazing. It is a pretty quick read and it made me want to keep reading for so long!! Pretty predictable though.

[Mojo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It got really mushy at the end

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I needed something light after the last book, and this definitely fit what I wanted. Fluffy and predictable.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this was a cute story, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was loosely inspired by Gilmore Girls, and that affected my personal experience reading it. Also, I wish that the main characters were a little bit older. I understand that this is supposed to appeal to 4th - 7th grade readers, but I found it hard to believe that 12/13 year olds would be given so much responsibility in organizing a "famous" festival that deeply impacted the economy of the town. Furthermore, there were some heavier issues introduced in the story that never received the deeper consideration that we should be encouraging in our young readers. I wish that Lark had a voice in this book, and that the author spent a little more time delving into Yoshi's complicated emotions.

All in all, I think this would be an entertaining read for the intended demographic, but 4th & 5th grade might be a little too young to understand the anxiety of the "romantic relationship" portion of the story.

[MyImpossibleList · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an easy read, but I don't know what young readers would get out of it. The book ends with a kiss, which is an okay ending, but the two things I would remember a month from now are 1) the kiss, and 2) the boy who conveniently liked the girl. It's not realistic, and again, I don't know what teenagers would get out of it. Another thing I found weird was the kid's dialogue, such as "Don't be difficult" on pg. 38, even though this book's setting is the 21st century (with GIFs already popular).

[Anna Reads Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

RealRate- 4.40/5

This was a great novel, yet a novel that could be a bit boring. I really loved the ending and thought the book was definitely well-written, and I also liked how the storyline was great. I highly recommend this to anyone, because the book was awesome!

[Katherine A · Rating 1 out of 5]

it sucked

[Amber Krajewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a cute Middle Grade book about working together, expressing feelings, and great friends.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

SO CUTE!

[Sarahs Reads ToKids]

Lydia received this book for Christmas and really liked this story. This has a romance in it with a girl having a crush on a boy and eventually they do kiss but this is a sweet romance story.

[Abigail Freely · Rating 5 out of 5]

super cute and pretty cheesy but overall a great read and good for middle school!

[squish ˳ ׄ ⟡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

YOSHI IS VERY VERY CUTE!!!! (me as i say the same thing for every other book here on my christmas reading advent calendar...

he's really sweet to mia and i like that about him because he's just NATURALLY that way. doesn't seem forced or anything.

mia was really frustrating about the whole weather thing like... i get that the festival depends on snow, but did you really have to be that way to yoshi?

lark i understood, but she should have TOLD mia.

it's a funny goofy read!!!

bottom line: FUN FUN FUNNN

[Kaylee Kinna · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book to me was just boring. It took a while to get into, and I only read this just to get it off of my shelf.

[Payton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book, it is just like The Summer I Saved The World In 65 Days! Again I would recommend this book to any tween girls who like romance!

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[Nadeen · Rating 1 out of 5]

I remembered reading this book when I was younger and I remembered liking it and so I wanted to reread it but it was really cringe.

[Alyssa Kornacki]

Very Good!