By Radhika Sanghani (author)
"A gorgeous, magical tweenage story about friendship and coming to feel proud of who you are."
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July 2026 Book of the Month
Melding magic with relatable pre-teen dreams and anxieties, Radhika Sanghani’s The Summer My Wishes Came True is a veritable dream of tween fiction. In fact, tween readers who love the Lottie Brooks books and Jacqueline Wilson couldn’t wish for more. Incredibly authentic, and written with energy and empathy, it’s a beautiful book about true friendship, courage, and taking pride in who you really are.
In the words of its leader, “Camp Willow has a funny way of changing people in ways they never see coming!”, which is exactly what happens to thirteen-year-old Ayesha whose parents have finally allowed her to go to summer camp. Better still, she’s going with her best friend Nikki: “they’d always been there for each other, through life events big and small”.
But everything changes when Nikki returns from a family trip to New York seeming much more grown-up. She’s also stopped wearing her friendship bracelet. Devastated when she overhears Nikki describing her as “immature” to their camp cabin-mates, Ayesha makes a wish on the night of a super moon: “I wish my wishes could come true”, she yearns.
Soon enough, all Ayesha’s wishes do come true, but with unexpected consequences that lead to her reversing them all when she realises that “nothing could stay the same for ever”, and being honest and true to yourself is always the best policy.
Exploring an array of themes that will chime with its intended 9+-year-old audience, including anxiety, lack of confidence, and the awkwardness and loneliness that can come of feeling younger than your peers, The Summer My Wishes Came True is the perfect summer read for tween-agers, especially those who are struggling with confidence and shifting friendship dynamics.
When everything she wishes for starts coming true, Ayesha discovers what will really make her happy. A book about tween friendships, with a sprinkling of magic, from award-winning journalist and author Radhika Sanghani. Perfect for fans of Lottie Brooks and Dork Diaries.
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Ayesha can't wait for summer camp, it's going to be the best two weeks ever with her best friend Nikki. But Nikki's changed over the summer and things don't feel the same between them. When Ayesha overhears Nikki telling their roommates she's immature, Ayesha is embarrassed and wishes her life could be different.
The next day Ayesha realizes everything she wishes for is coming true. Lie-in in the morning? Tick! Pizza for lunch? Tick! Nikki to be her best friend? Tick! Suddenly Nikki's hanging out with her again, and then Ayesha wishes for Nikki to get a part in the camp's musical, and now she's playing the lead role.
But their friendship still isn't the same. Ayesha thinks she needs a part in the musical too, so she makes another wish, even if her actions have taken a role in the musical from someone else who would really love it. She's got everything she's ever wished for, but will her wishes really make her happy? This summer isn't turning out to be everything she hoped for...
'A really relatable story about friendship.'– ELLE McNICOLL
'A funny, heartwarming and relatable story about real friendship, courage and being true to yourself.' – TAMSIN WINTER
'Warm, relatable and full of feeling. I really enjoyed it.' – KIMBERLY WHITTAM
Radhika Sanghani is an award-winning features journalist, acclaimed author, screenwriter, influential body positivity campaigner and a 2020 BBC Writers Room graduate. Radhika writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Elle, Guardian, Grazia, Glamour and Cosmopolitan; was recently featured in Italian Vogue as well BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and is a regular guest on Sky News and Good Morning Britain. She is also a TedX speaker on body positivity, a yoga teacher and runs a charity initiative with AgeUK fighting loneliness in older women.
Her middle-grade debut The Girl Who Couldn’t Lie (Usborne) published May 2024.
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When everything she wishes for starts coming true, Ayesha discovers what will really make her happy. A book about tween friendships, with a sprinkling of magic, from award-winning journalist and author Radhika Sanghani.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Summer My Wishes Came True and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Summer My Wishes Came True features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Stories about Family and Friends, Romance / Relationship Stories, Drama / Performing Arts, PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
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The Summer My Wishes Came True was written by Radhika Sanghani and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. an imprint of Usborne Publishing
The Summer My Wishes Came True has 246 pages
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