The Rescue Princesses (Book 2): The Wishing Pearl by Paula Harrison

Rating: Not for me

Reading level: Early Elementary

Four princess friends create a magic bracelet to help an injured dolphin.

Possible Concerns:

• Magic. Instead of letting there be a vet on the Island, the author chooses to have one of the princesses craft a magic bracelet that helps the dolphin. Also, the dolphin speaks to a princess through a magic pearl.
• Sneaking away to avoid being helpful. The princesses sneak away from a prince because his queen mother needs help and they don’t want to help her.
• Snooping. They think a prince is up to mischief so sneak into his room and snoop around. They find a treasure map; it turns out he’s hunting treasure.
• Going on water, unsupervised, in a lightning storm, then jumping in the huge waves to help a sick dolphin. It was so dangerous, and a bad model for kids.

The premise is promising:princesses help animals. But for me, the bad model and the use of magic outweighed the good.

See also my review of Book 1: The Secret Promise.