Twist My Charm: Love Potion #11

by Toni Gallagher

Overview

Middle school crushes are WAY more complicated when you have a love potion.
 
Everyone knows love potions don’t really work. But Cleo got one as a gift. And it would be crazy not to at least try it . . . right? The plan is simple: make Cleo’s ex–best friend Samantha and her (secret) crush Larry fall in love. If it works, Sam will be so happy, she’ll want to be Cleo’s friend again! But when Sam gets suspicious, only Larry drinks the love potion. And now suddenly Larry is in love with . . . Cleo?
            And then it gets worse. Cleo’s dad drank the other glass of punch, and suddenly he’s in love with Samantha’s mom. Which would have been really cool when Cleo and Sam were still friends . . . but now that they’re frenemies? Disaster! Is there a potion to make everything go back to normal?
            Fans of Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Wendy Mass will love this fresh contemporary story with just a touch of magic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553511192
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	05/24/2016
Series:	Twist My Charm Series
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	750L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

No stranger to storytelling, Toni Gallagher earned a journalism degree from Northwestern University and has had a successful career in reality TV. She began as a story editor on the early seasons of MTV’s The Real World and was a producer on the beloved and respected Disney Channel show Bug Juice, about real kids at summer camp. Currently she serves as executive producer of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo. Toni lives in Los Angeles and loves finding the magic in it.
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Editorial Reviews

05/01/2016
Gr 4–6—All Cleo wants is for everyone to be friends again. After the events of The Popularity Spell, her former best friend Samantha is friends with a new group of girls. Cleo has a new pal whom she is getting to know better, and she's lucky to have the support of Larry, her best guy friend. Cleo schemes to get everyone's friendship back on track with the help of a love potion mysteriously sent from her odd uncle from New Orleans. When things don't go the way they should, Cleo's plans start to fall apart. The second book in the series is full of the same charm and fluffy middle school antics that readers of the previous volume enjoyed. Gallagher provides enough background from the first book so new readers will not have any problems jumping in. Cleo's single father, who is trying to get back in the dating game while raising a child, is realistic. The presence of a long-talked-about but little-seen character in the end leaves room for further installments in this "charm"-ing series.

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