When You Wish Upon a Lantern

By Gloria Chao

Book Overview

Acclaimed author Gloria Chao creates real-world magic in this luminous romance about teens who devote themselves to granting other people's wishes but are too afraid to let themselves have their own hearts' desires--each other.

Liya and Kai had been best friends since they were little kids, but all that changed when a humiliating incident sparked The Biggest Misunderstanding of All Time--and they haven't spoken since.

Then Liya discovers her family's wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky. It may boost sales and save the store, but she can't do it alone . . . and Kai is the only one who cares enough to help.

While working on their covert missions, Liya and Kai rekindle their friendship--and maybe more. But when their feuding families and changing futures threaten to tear them apart again, can they find a way to make their own wishes come true?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593464354
• ISBN13: 9780593464359
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12