Totally Psychic
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
This debut middle grade series stars a Cuban-American tween medium navigating friends, family and ghosts!
Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has “the gift.” Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma.
When Paloma’s parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running:
Host seances at her new school and stream on social media Build her profile and make a name for herself Avoid detection from her tattletale of a little sister
But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she’ll need more than a crystal ball to find her way out of this mess.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A 12-year-old Cuban American medium dreams of becoming a world-renowned psychic just like her abuela in Martin's laugh-out-loud debut, a lighthearted lesson in the downsides of chasing Internet acclaim. Paloma Ferrer, who is part of a long line of psychics, loves the attention that comes from being the granddaughter of Gloria, medium to the rich and famous and host of the wildly popular show Miami Mystic. Paloma believes she's ready to follow in Abuela's footsteps by joining her on a tour across Latin America. When her parents announce they're moving the family from Miami to Los Angeles to escape Abuela's limelight, Paloma's determined not to let the setback curtail her ambition. She will just have to show her abuela what she can do by secretly livestreaming séances from her new school's greenhouse. But as requests for readings start piling up, ghosts begin to overstay their welcome, and her nosy younger sister becomes suspicious, Paloma must figure out a way to clean up her act. Through Paloma's unabashedly youthful voice, Martin crafts a predictable narrative that's satisfying in its meditations on tween friendship, balancing the responsibilities of newfound power and charting one's own path within family traditions. Ages 8–12.
Customer Reviews
A cute ghost story
Totally Pyschic is a middle grade story about a girl named Paloma who can see ghosts. The story follows Paloma as she moves across the country away from her super famous abuela who is a professional medium. In her new home, Paloma starts a social media account where she does live ghost readings to help people get closure with their loved ones.
I think that this story was absolutely adorable. I loved the ghosts and Paloma’s interaction with them; it definitely made me see ghosts in a new light.I really enjoyed seeing Paloma’s journey of moving across the country and having to adapt to a different place. I will say that at first, her mom and sister were absolutely unbearable, but the further the story went on, the better they got. I thought the writing was really simple and easy to read which is perfect for middle grade. The plot kept me invested and there wasn’t a dull moment in this book