It doesn't mean three wishes, but three trips to 1881 (there and back) in the old elevator in her apartment building! While she's there, she becomes good friends with Victoria Walker whose Mother is being taken in by a fortune-hunter. The old woman promises her "three" and Susan doesn't know what she could possibly mean. Her Mother has recently died, her Father is always working and at school she's been passed over as the lead in the play, so others can have a "fair chance." Susan is just utterly grumpy about things in general, yet she still stops to help a strange old lady pick up her spilled groceries from the street. The story is all about Susan Shaw, a preteen who is having a horrible time of things. So, I never read either Time At The Top or its sequel when I was a child, but I had seen the movie that was based on the first book and absolutely loved it beyond measure! I think it probably contributed to my complete obsession with time travel that I still have, even midway through my twenties.
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