Star Rating:4.25 starsPlot:"Wendy Mass turns to another magical birthday: 13!When Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some friends with the popular crowd and gets caught, she gets herself in a heap of trouble. In addition, her parents decide that instead of taking her on their summer trip to Madagascar to study the courtship rituals of the Bamboo Lemur, she must go stay with her aunt, uncle, and bratty cousin Emily St. Claire in Willow Fal...

13 Gifts is about a girl named Tara. Her parents are sending her to her aunt's after she made a peer pressure decision. Her parents went to Madagascar while she was with her family. On the train someone steals all of her belongings except for her clothes. She has no money, no phone, and worst of all no one to get her. Eventually she is able to get in contact with her relatives that pick her up. While Tara is out on a walk a day later she meets an old lady that tells her she has to pay her debt.

"Our actions have long-lasting consequences, of which we often have no knowledge. They ripple far out into the universe." ―Angelina D'Angelo, 13 Gifts, P. 126 "If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.” ―Angelina D'Angelo, P. 305 Wendy Mass has really done something special in creating the Willow Falls series. Though 11 Birthdays stands out to me as the best of the first three boo

13 gifts, by Wendy mass, is a wonderful fiction novel in the 11 birthday series. This book is about a girl named Tara who moves away from her home to her cousins house is Willow falls. Willow falls is an average town with unaverage people. The oldest woman there, Angelina DeAngelo, is the most strange of all. Something odd happens to a couple other kids on their birthday, and they know it has to do with Angelina. When Tara arrives, she meets Amanda, Leo, and Rory. She immediately becomes there f...

This book was a very interesting book, and I could read it over and over again. You could say you will read it for only twenty minutes and end up reading it for over two hours. It really is a hand down great book, and I hope you go and check this book out.

Book Review Who wouldn’t want to get thirteen gifts on their thirteenth birthday? Everyone does, including soon to be thirteen year old Tara Brennan, until she meets the strangest person of all: Angelina D’Angelo, in the strange town of Willow Falls. This exciting realistic fiction tale Thirteen Gifts by Wendy Mass will make you feel as if you are Tara yourself. Tara and her friends strike a deal with Angelina, just so she can get a new iPod. If Tara doesn’t get Angelina everything on her list b...

First of all, it was awesome. I just have to say that. It was really, really good. I got it from the library because I liked reading 11 Birthdays and Finally, and love Wendy Mass's writing style. The cover is eye-catching, and the blurb was enough to catch my interest. (Let me just point out that the blurb on my book is different than the one on this webpage. As a fencer & self-proclaimed math geek, I take issue with the statement that Emily is bratty. She totally isn't, and the book makes that

After a failed attempt to steal a stuffed goat from the vice principal's office ends in the vice principal getting pepper-sprayed and soon-to-be-thirteen-year-old Tara suspended for the final two weeks of the year (in an attempt to fit in with other kids her age, Tara refuses to give up her accomplices), Tara is exiled to the small town of Willow Falls to spend her summer. This is instead of going with her parents to Madagascar to study the lemur, something she had been looking forward to doing....

I really liked this book because it was full of mystery. At the end of the book everything really came together and made sense of why certain things happened. Can't wait to read the next book in the series!:)

13 Gifts by Wendy Mass was by far the best in the 11 Birthdays series. Every one is the series has its own amazing plot, but this book, being the last in the series had all the answers to the previous books in it, and made everything tie together in a perfect way. This book was indubitably about growing up, fitting in, and learning from mistakes, which most teen books are about, but Wendy Mass puts it together so perfectly it doesn't seem like a meaningless book about teenagers mistakes. It is a...

This is such an amusing series....

The realistic fiction book called 13 Gifts by Wendy Mass, is one of many great books in this series. In this book, the main character Tera goes for the summer to a little town called Willow Falls. Her thoughts about this change are very negative, she thinks it will be horrible, until she meets some very important people along the way. Tera is staying with her aunt, uncle, and cousin. Sooner then she thinks, she meet some new friends that she becomes very close to. Tera's bad decision takes her o...

I loved this book because it all comes together in a very suprising way.Wendy Mass writes in a way that you can really feel for every caracter.You can not not read this book!!!!!

Okay, so the beginning kinda annoyed me because Tara claimed to have overprotective parents, but then they sent her on a train ride by herself to their hometown to stay with her aunt while they went to Madagascar. Which, in my opinion, isn't something overprotective parents would do. But once she met the characters from the other books it was great and I actually really love this book! I'm giving it a 4 because of the beginning 60 pages😅

a character strength represented is teamwork because Tara allows her friends to help her complete the challenge that she was asked to do

there was actual TEA at the end

I liked the book because it tied into the other books in the series really well. If you liked the other books in the series you will definitely like this one also. If you want to start reading the Willow Falls series, I would highly recommend reading them in order. In this book, Tara's parents go to Madagascar and leave Tara to spend the summer at her cousin Emily's house in Willow Falls. On the train Tara loses the most valuable things she brought with her, her phone, her moms iPod, and her $20...

13 Gifts by Wendy Mass is such a great book! People in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade would love this book too! Dork Diaries is similar to this book, so if you've read and enjoyed them you'd love this series. Basically what happens in this book is that a girl named Tara got suspended and has to live with her aunt and uncle. Then she has to collect these items for Angela, the oldest one in town. She has to put on a play with the items she collected. I would definitely recommend this book to a lot of peo...

This book was so good! I was worried that it might just be another sequel, looking for more money, but I was pleasantly surprised. Filled with surprises and twists, I would completely say that this is just as good as the first 2 books in the series. This book doesn't let down, and neither does Wendy Mass.

It was amazing!! I love the entire series!!!!!!! I recommend it for anyone who loves adverntures, because this series is full of adventures. The characters are amazing and so is the place the the book takes place. I wish this place and charaters were real, because they are amazing and Wendy Mass did a great job!