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When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect…

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My granddaughter is obsessed with unicorns, so this book went easily into the library bag. But we were as surprised as the protagonist, Lucy, when we found out Sparkle isn't a unicorn—spoiler alert—she's a goat!

Poor Lucy wants Sparkle to behave like a unicorn, and she decides to send her back when that doesn't happen. But with a wonderful twist, Lucy changes her mind, and Sparkle stays. The subtle lesson the new goat owner learns is that sometimes, expectations can be changed to accommodate the new situation. 

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