Anything

The young protagonist in Anything tells us she can wish for very hard things—a rainbow in her room or the biggest slice of pizza in the whole world! But wishes (or "anythings," as she calls them) only go so far when you've just moved into a new apartment that doesn't feel like home. The girl's father has a few tricks up his sleeve to make her wishes come true and help the two of them create new memories. This is Newbery winner Rebecca Stead's first picture book and she writes for a younger audience with the same emotional intelligence that she brings to her middle-grade books.