Hailey Twitch and the Wedding Glitch

By Lauren Barnholdt and Suzanne Beaky

Hailey's magic sprite, Maybelle, has finally gotten control of her magic! Does that mean that Maybelle no longer needs Hailey? As if that's not enough to worry Hailey, now she's got her hands full being a flower girl in her aunt's wedding.

Hailey Twitch wants to have fun, fun, FUN!

Hailey has a secret. She has a friend named Maybelle that no one else can see.

Hailey has the most fab, fab, fabulous news! She will be the flower girl in her cousin's wedding — and wear sparkly shoes. Hailey is sure to need help from Maybelle. But now that Maybelle has finally gotten control of her magic, she might be leaving!

Will Hailey and Maybelle make it through the wedding without a big disaster? Or will the two friends have to say good-bye forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Nov 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781402246005

Lauren Barnholdt

Lauren Barnholdt is the author of the teen novels The Thing About the Truth, Sometimes It Happens, One Night That Changes Everything, Two-way Street, Right of Way, and Watch Me. She is also the author of the middle grade novels The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney, Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better, Four Truths and a Lie, Rules for Secret-Keeping, Fake Me a Match, and the Girl Meets Ghost series. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Visit her at LaurenBarnholdt.com.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2011 by Lauren Barnholdt

Cover and internal illustrations © 2011 by Suzanne Beaky

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Date of Production: September 2011

Run Number: 16052

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Chapter One: Wonderful News

Chapter Two: A Sprite with Problems

Chapter Three: Sparkly Shoes

Chapter Four: A Big Blue Mess

Chapter Five: A Job at Aunt Denise’s House

Chapter Six: Get Them off My Feet

Chapter Seven: A Permission for Maybelle

Chapter Eight: A Couple of Disasters

Chapter Nine: Kaitlyn to the Rescue

Chapter Ten: The Wedding at Last

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Illustrator

Back Cover

For Aaron, always

Something very wonderful is happening right at this very moment. And that wonderful thing is called being a flower girl! Yay! The flower girl is the most important part in a wedding. That is because she is in charge of dropping beautiful rose petals onto the ground right in front of the bride.

The bride is my cousin, Genevieve. She is getting married in one week.

That means that in seven whole days I get to wear a fab, fab, fabulous princess dress. Because that is what flower girls do. In fact, that is where I am right now. At the fabulous princess dress shop. It is called Brides and More. And it is only for dresses for weddings. For brides. And flower girls.

I want this one! I yell. I am run, run, running right into the store and right up to a very beautiful white long dress with lace all on it.

Hailey, my mom says. That is a dress for a bride.

Or a flower girl, I say.

A bride, she says.

Or a flower girl, I tell her.

No, my mom says.

Why not? I look around for someone who works in that store. I see a lady over in the corner. She is wearing a name tag. And she has very frizzy brown hair. Excuse me, lady! I yell. We need some help with this dress right over here. We need to wrap one up for a flower girl.

That lady does not look too happy at all about the yelling. But she comes over anyway.

Can I help you? she asks. Then she points over to a sign that is hanging on the wall. I sound out the words. Please Watch Children in the Store, it says.

I am a child. Because I am seven years old. But I do not need to be watched. On account of me being a flower girl.

That sign is not very nice, I tell that lady. I am going to be a very beautiful flower girl in my cousin Genevieve’s wedding. I do a curtsy so she can tell just how beautiful it will be. And I would like you to wrap up this dress, please.

That is a bride’s dress, the lady says. She is getting a little bit of a mean voice. Kind of like the voice my neighbor Mr. Frisk uses when I am bothering him.

No, it isn’t, I say. It is not just for brides. Flower girls can wear it, too. I am about to have a good tantrum right in this store. I can feel it already starting right up inside of me.

Hailey, my mom says. Then she points over toward the door. Look who it is! It’s your cousin Angela!

I turn around to look. And there is Cousin Angela. She is walking right into the store of Brides and More. She is with Aunt Denise. Aunt Denise is Angela’s mom. And she is my mom’s sister. It is all a very confusing family tree.

What are those two doing here? I ask. Is Aunt Denise getting married, too?

No, my mom says. Aunt Denise is already married to Uncle Adam. You know that.

"Then why are they coming to a bride shop, please? Are they