Clara Voyant

By Rachelle Delaney

A young journalist's horoscopes come true, revealing unexpected powers and a school mystery.

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224 pages

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Clara's life turns upside down when her grandmother moves away, leaving her and her mother to start anew. In a quirky neighborhood, Clara joins her school's newspaper, eager to write hard-hitting stories. Instead, she's stuck with horoscopes that mysteriously come true, earning her the nickname Clara Voyant. Skeptical of her newfound clairvoyance, Clara faces a dilemma when a mystery arises at school. Can she solve it using the very powers she doubts? As she navigates this strange new world, Clara must reconcile her journalistic ambitions with her unexpected mystical abilities.

From the publisher

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.

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