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Stella has a feeling that her life in Tacoma is about to turn around-just like her Panda Express fortune cookie promised. She'll finally make friends, and maybe have a little less generalized anxiety about big things, like her absent mom, and small things, like food touching other food on her plate. Her hopes for a friend-filled, anxiety-free future are quickly overshadowed when her Dad offers up an odd souvenir from his Vegas business trip: his new fiancée, Whitney. A few short weeks later, Stella and her brother find themselves staying in Whitney's Las Vegas house. But Stella isn't ready to accept her new life in the desert just yet. It's going to take some help from the stars-and her soon-to-be stepsister-to get this wedding called off once and for all.

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Willis Wilbur has the entire summer in front of him. So it's time to fulfill his destiny: becoming the neighborhood life coach.Nine-year-old Willis Wilbur had his summer figured out. He and his best friend, Shelley, were going to Band Camp, and he was going to learn how to play the sousaphone. Easy. Simple. A done deal. But when Shelley is whisked off to Hawaii for a summer with her family, Willis is left staring down the long, boring road of an empty summer. Or even worse--eight long weeks of Day Camp. So Willis decides to try something new. He's going to MAKE A DATE WITH DESTINY. And after spotting a flyer for a local business competition, he finds exactly what his true calling really is: becoming the Neighborhood Life Coach. A kid helping other kids with kids' problems. His niche, he discovers. And he was going to be great at it. The best at it. So good, that he was going to become wildly, ridiculously famous. All he needed were some clients...With gumption, tenacity, and many other buzzwords he finds in self-help business magazines, Willis dives bowtie-first into the entrepreneurial waters. But starting a business alone, especially without his best friend by his side, is tough work. And with neighborhood bullies getting in his way, a guinea pig client who's actually a guinea pig, and an annoyingly competent little sister asking for a raise, Willis has his work cut out for him.Funny, heartfelt, and overwhelmingly endearing, Willis Wilbur is here to make all of your (well, his) dreams come true. (For a small fee.)

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