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What happens during the life of a coin? Who has held it? Where has it been?
The Wishful Penny’s adventures begin with her unique birth at a U.S. mint during World War II, and her journey includes discovering children’s hiding places, visiting foreign lands, meeting and making friends with talking coins friends, facing angry robbers, and being part of a police crime scene. After fifty years of travel, Penny is lost in a city park where she is shocked to learn that people no longer think she is worth picking up. It takes a cupful of free pennies on an ice cream truck, a girl’s math homework, a magnet, an old mistake, and a secret wish to reveal the surprising truth about Penny’s real worth.
As Penny’s journey unfolds, so does a unique coin wisdom that can easily apply to anyone. Penny learns that mistakes are good opportunities; there is immense value in being different; life will get better even when it seems hopeless; envisioning wishes can make them come true; and there is a magic treasure inside everyone, even if no one sees it yet.
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