Overall I really liked the book. Especially since I'm almost 16 myself. I feel like I can relate more to the characters. I liked how the prom was a major crisis in the story. Only a silly dance in high school would seem so important to two teenagers. Most adults probably think that it's a lot of trouble for nothing.

The story begins with Celinda getting asked to the prom by the most popular guy in school, Travis Foxx. It sounds like things are going just great for her, right? Well there is this one tiny detail: Celinda's parents won't let her date until she's 16. The real problem is that Celinda doesn't turn 16 until Saturday, the day after the dance. Her parents refuse to let her go.

Now let me just say that I am very thankful that I don't have parents like Celinda's. I mean, one lousy day isn't going to make that much of a difference. Apparently this is how Celinda feels too. Plus she is going with Travis, a once in a life time opportunity. Celinda decides that she will stop at nothing to convince her parents that she should be allowed to go. Her friend Mandy tells her that she should just give up. Mandy isn't desperate to go (her parents have the same 16 rule) because she doesn't have a date anyway. She wants to go with an already-taken guy named Shawn O'Neill.

Celinda tries everything to get her parents to let her go, but it's useless. Then on Friday, a week from the prom, a weird boy in one of her classes keeps staring at her. He finally says something to her and gives her a book which is titled, The Power of Positive Wishing. Celinda thinks the kid is weird and doesn't look in it until the next day. The book says that making a wish is like baking a cake and timing is everything. And the best time to make a wish is the next day, Sunday, at 4:00. Celinda reads through the rest of the book and calls Mandy. She gets Mandy to come over on Sunday. They sit in Celinda's room and at 4:00, start wishing. This is the beginning of Celinda and Mandy's extraordinary adventure.

They have found themselves frozen in time and aging four whole days in just four minutes. This way they will be old enough to go to the dance. The only problem is, how are they going to get anyone to believe them? They are moving at about a thousand miles per hour when it seems to them that they are just walking. This begins the girls' dilemma with trying to prove that they are really turning "16 In No Time" and experiencing their super high speed. They also have to deal with disasters that they cause as well as prevent.

The only things that I didn't like about the story was that once in a while the girls would act ditzy. They seemed intelligent and brave but sometimes they would come out of that character and act like a couple of blondes (no real offence meant to blonde people). Another thing was that the popular guy turned out to be the jerk again. That cliche has been done many times before. The popular guy isn't what he seems and the girl that was going to go out with him finds out what a jerk he is and dumps him. One other thing that bothered me was how easily Celinda believed in the whole wishing thing. She just reads the book once and is totally convinced that her wishes really could come true. Most teens are skeptical. I know I am. So why was it so easy for Celinda to believe what the book told her?

Besides those three points, I think the book was very enjoyable and interesting. It tells a story with a subject that not many people think about too often. It is explanatory enough on how the whole time thing works so you don't wonder so much about how they did it. It tells about situations that wouldn't usually be a big deal to adults or little kids but very important to teens. I think that's one of the reasons why I like this book so much is because it's directed toward teens, like me. I'm sure adults will like this story too because it lets them get an idea of what teens consider problems, and maybe even go back and visit some of their own teen memories similar to this.

Well, maybe not that similar.