A wannabe journalist and reluctant astrologer turns out to be
clairvoyant in this charming middle-grade coming-of-age novel; for fans
of Rebecca Stead's novels.
Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to
Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time.
This means her mother can finally follow her bliss, which involves
moving to a tiny apartment in Kensington Market, working at a herbal
remedy shop and trying to develop her so-called mystical powers. Clara
tries to make the best of a bad situation by joining the newspaper staff
at her new middle school, where she can sharpen her investigative
journalistic skills and tell the kind of hard-news stories her
grandmother appreciated. But the editor relegates her to boring news
stories and worse . . . the horoscopes.
Worse yet, her horoscopes come true, and soon everyone at school is
talking about Clara Voyant, the talented fortune-teller. Clara is
horrified -- horoscopes and clairvoyance aren't real, she insists, just
like her grandmother always told her. But when a mystery unfolds at
school, she finds herself in a strange situation: having an opportunity
to prove herself as an investigative journalist . . . with the help of
her own mystical powers.