Principal for a Day

The Wish Library #2

by Christine Evans, Patrick Corrigan (Illustrations)

When Raven leaves for vacation, Luca finds himself on his own again. As the new kid at Lincoln Elementary, he’s tired of getting told what to do by everyone around him. So despite his best friend’s warnings, Luca visits the Wish Library and asks to be the one in charge. But even rule makers need to compromise sometimes.

Genres: Chapter Books

96 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2021

Reviews

[Pam]

Second in this series.
When Raven has to leave for her grandmother's funeral, Luca feels lonely and still like the new kid. He gets in trouble at school and decides to seek a wish from the Wish Library. Readers see the difficulties that arise after he wishes to be in charge. Plenty of humor with the "new" principal as Luca makes some interesting decisions for his schoolmates. Fortunately, when Raven gets back home, he has help to return the wish on time.
Easy to read chapter book for mid-elementary level.

[Liz]

The Wish Library is a secret hidden library at their school, where visitors can wish for anything, but sometimes wishes aren't granted the way you might think. You need to be specific and clear, or else. Be careful what you wish for! While his friend is away, Luca promises not to go to The Wish Library without her. Well, what do you think he does? I haven't read the first one, but this one gives you enough backstory to read them out of order. For fans of magic schools, wishes, and The Unlucky Lottery Winners of Classroom 13.

[Laura Roettiger]

The second book in a series is always fun because you already know the setting and characters so there's a comfortable feeling and being the new kid is something we can relate to here at my house. Also familiar to me but not to Seven is the body switch trope which is always fun to see how it is handled. We really liked this one. And what kid, or grownup for that matter, hasn't dreamed of being in charge? Or at least not being bossed around.

[Sheri]

This is a chapter book about a boy who wishes to change school while his friend is away. He visits the mysterious wish library. He becomes the principal and finds it isn't fun and wishes to go back before his friend returns from a family event. Eleven chapters and a boy named Luca regrets the changes that come about and breaking his promise to his friend.

[Megan Mann]

I loved that this teaches kids that making rules isn’t that simple, that adults have far more responsibilities than they realize.