When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.
When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.
Stella Batts is in third-grade, she wants to be a writer, and her parents own a candy shop. Life should be sweet, right?
In Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Stella can't wait to try out the candy store's new Magical Glow-in-the-Dark Chewing Gum. But instead of granting wishes, the gum seems to bring Stella bad luck, including a VERY drastic haircut!
This best-selling early chapter book series charmingly chronicles the ups and downs of a girl's school and family life with warmth and humor.
Courtney Sheinmel is a recovering attorney, chocolate-lover, mac and cheese expert, and the author of over a dozen highly celebrated books for kids and teens, including the young readers' Stella Batts series, the middle grade Kindness Club series, and the young adult novel, Edgewater. In addition to writing, Courtney served as a judge on the national level for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she received a National Scholastic Outstanding Educator Award for her work as a writing instructor at Writopia Lab, a non-profit organization serving kids ages 8 to 18. Courtney lives in New York City. You can find her on Twitter at @courtneywrites, on Instagram at courtneysheinmel, or on her website at Jennifer A. Bell is a children's book and greeting card illustrator, and studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design. After several years of living in Minneapolis, she recently relocated to Toronto.
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