Zara
By: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408837085; 9781408804216
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Friendship; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: Zara and Ella were both two weeks late for the start of the school year. Ever since then they've been best friends. They're always fooling around finding out the star signs of boys they fancy, reading out their horoscopes and playing games to discover the initial of the boy they're going to marry - just things to pass the time and take their minds off exams and tests. Ella's never really taken it all very seriously, but then Zara starts to act a bit differently - dressing like a Goth and experimenting with her new-found spiritual side and psychic powers in order to get them noticed by the popular crowd in their class and earn them both a bit of kudos. But little does Ella know how far Zara is really prepared to go - even betraying their friendship - to get the attention she clearly seeks.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.