All That Glitters

Sabrina the Teenage Witch #12

by Ray Garton

When Sabrina's new purchase, a parcel of "wishdust" she buys at a witches' flea market, finds its way all over school, she must find a way to stop everyone's wishful thinking from ruining Friday's big dance. Original.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Witches, Fiction, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Magic

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Ray Garton is the author of several books, including horror novels such as LIVE GIRLS (which has a movie in the works), CRUCIFAX, E4 AUTUMN, and THE FOLKS; thrillers like TRADE SECRETS and SHACKLED; and numerous short stories and novellas. He's also written a number of movie and television tie-ins for young readers. He lives with his wife, Dawn, in California.

Reviews

[Thibault Busschots · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sabrina buys magic wishing powder in the other realm and takes it to school. Unfortunately for her, even mortals can use the wishing powder. When an elephant and movie stars like Winona Ryder and Leonardo Di Caprio start magically popping up in her high school, Sabrina realizes that the situation is quickly spiraling out of control.


A fun and straight forward nostalgic read.

[Madeleine Knutsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jag har en fråga, vad hände egentligen med Sabrinas bästis Jenny? Hon verkar har försvunnit och ingen förklaring på vart hon är. Hon verkar blivit utbytt mot Val, inte för det är något problem med henne, men jag gillade verkligen Jenny.

[Gavin Hetherington · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read a selection of 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' books for a trip down nostalgia lane in a YouTube video (complete with as re-creation of the original iconic Sabrina opening): https://youtu.be/GOKZ-IxwX-4

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilda and Zelda are taking Sabrina to what is essentially a flea market for witches. They have a lot of fun shopping. Sabrina checks out one place and the woman working there offers to sell her a bag of wishdust. Use some of it and even a person without any magic can get what they wish for. (Just how far this goes I don't know. Salem would want to rule the world, that's for sure.)

It turns out that the wishdust has been banned because of how dangerous it actually is. Things don't go well for Sabrina when she has it on her when she goes to school (major bad mistake) and manages to lose it. Can anything go wrong when teenagers end up with dust that can cause their wishes to come true?

Yep. Including having famous Hollywood actors and actresses show up. The book is kept on a funny level, thankfully. Pretty neat story.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Please take me to the Rummage Realm.

I’m in need of some wishdust myself.

[Sophie Sternschuss · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun story that starts in the other realm . It did feel similar to a previous book where a magical item gets passed around the school.

[Terese]

I found three of these Sabrina books at a rummage sale (fitting for this title) and I guess nostalgia (and inexpensiveness) made me buy them.

I used to love these when I was the appropriate age for them back in the 90’s. Now… well, it’s a kids book so I knew what I was getting into and it wasn’t the great American novel.

I thought this joke from Mr.Kraft was solid: ’He looked at Mark and said, ”And who is this… Darrin number one or Darrin number two?”

(And Darrin number one was always the best, by the by)

Though I’ll admit that it is kind of a dated joke. Actually it WAS a dated joke even in the 90s so I’m surprised it made its way into a YA book.

My biggest take away from this novel was from the final pages where the publishers advertised some of their other titles and I now, as an adult, find out that there were MOESHA books!? I feel so cheated. I loved Moesha and never knew there were books tied to that series as well. Life before internet shopping was hard guys!

Anyway, this was an easily read distraction while I had to take my dog to the vet, I can’t really rate it, but for a younger audience these are probably still a fun read!

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, this book had a lot going on in under 200 pages. Literally Brad Pitt, Neve Campbell, Leo DiCaprio and Winona Ryder had guest appearances. I definitely pictured Melissa Joan Hart as I read and it played out like an episode of the TGIF show, which was nostalgic. However, the magic system is really confusing! All the spells are super specific, need based rhymes? Like, there’s no way there’s a spell book that has ‘Compacts of powder, eye shadow, and rouge, rush into my purse with the speed of a luge,’ right? Maybe I’m missing some world building there jumping in at book 12. There’s like 60 of these.

[Malin · Rating 2 out of 5]

It started out very good and promising but the newer books aren't as good as the first ones in the series.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ohhhh wishdust I’d take much better care of you. Realizing that Sabrina’s lack of backbone during most situations is getting to me.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved all of the Sabrina tales full of magic. Every story was a different adventure and some new and exciting challenge to overcome. These books made me want to have magical powers too but the ending results were hilarious.

[Sella Malin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I used to love this T.V. show, along with the books.. now I don't care for both much anymore.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the first Sabrina book I ever got. I read it a couple times.

[Undela Uneeb · Rating 4 out of 5]

great story

[Elliott · Rating 3 out of 5]

another cute Sabrina story. not my favorite, but still a fun read. interesting to see Sabrina and Harvey apart!

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[Lonely Panda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really made me want to go to the magical kingdom.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

24/25
5 original
5 good topic
5 fast read
5 plot
4 opinion

[Kelly K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, Sabrina finds herself in a bind and chaos ensues. This one was an amusing read but not too memorable.