Wish & Wander

GROUNDHOG DAY gets a hilarious French twist in this delightful upper middle grade debut about first crushes and friendship when an eighth-grade class trip to Paris goes horribly wrong and the worst day of one girl's life keeps happening over and over. Fourteen-year-old Eve Hollis is ready to push through her fears and finally let her crush know how she feels. And what better place to tell him than on top of the Eiffel Tower in the City of Love? But things don't go as planned, and Eve is sure she's had the worst day of her life- until she wakes up the next morning to realize the whole disaster of a day is happening again. She's trapped in a time loop. Desperate to make it stop, Eve will have to take some big risks and learn from her mistakes or she's destined to live the most awkwardly painful day of her life over and over again, forever.

Lucas Duran has been on the trip of a lifetime-six months traveling through Europe with his parents and two younger brothers. That is, the trip of a lifetime for someone else. Lucas wants nothing more than to be home in Austin, Texas, rather than stinking, overrated Rome. And it shows in his schoolwork that he's been emailing to his teachers. When his teachers give him an ultimatum-either turn in a phenomenal last project or you'll fail the eighth grade-Lucas is going to have to decide whether to give up or to give in to the mystery of Rome. And after a cryptic palm reader hands him a weird-looking coin to throw in the Trevi Fountain, Lucas finds himself transported to ancient Rome, and he starts to experience and appreciate the city in a way he never imagined possible.