Sabina has just moved from central London to a small village so her mum can set-up her own beauty business. However, Sabina is finding the move much trickier than she expected, especially trying to fit in at her new school, Marston Girls' School, where everybody seems so very different to her. She's also missing her best friends, Harry and Ria, terribly. So when a meditation class leads to Sabina discovering she has psychic powers, she quickly becomes the most popular girl in school but even then, things don't seem to be working out quite how she expected. The question is, can she sort things out before it's too late?
This is a wonderfully readable story about friendship and learning to be yourself, and I just know that children in my school are going to devour it when they get their hands on my copy next term.
Like The Girl Who Couldn't Lie ( you can read my review here), How To Get Magically Popular takes an ordinary school girl and looks at what happens when something quite out of the ordinary happens to her (it was lovely to see a subtle nod to TGWCL in this book). It incorporates family life with negotiating friendships and school which are things readers will find very relatable.
Sabina feels that everything has changed for her, and right now she doesn't feel it's for the best. With Freya she finds somebody she can be herslef with, but then the lure of popularity rears its head when the Leeshes notice her, but is their friendship real or are they just using her? The book would make a brilliant reading for pleasure book in my Y6 class next term and would definitely spark some interesting discussions.
Publishing in the 14th August, How To Get Magically Popular is a book about friendship, family and finding out how to be true to yourself, and I loved it!
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