Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers

Clara Humble may seem like your average fourth-grader who doesn’t look before she leaps, but she has a secret: she thinks she might have superpowers. Which is convenient, because things aren’t going so well for Clara. Students from rival R. R. Reginald are moving into her school for the term, and Clara’s favorite neighbor, Momo, is moving to a faraway retirement home.

Together with her best friend, Bradley, the winsome and overconfident Clara becomes convinced that her knack for making liquids spill, overhearing her parents’ conversations, communicating with her pet chinchilla, and maybe even mind-controlling teachers could be used to put a stop to these injustices.

Told in Clara’s clever, funny, and strikingly authentic voice, this novel kicks off a new series by inviting readers into this memorable character’s inventive mind to share in her misadventures. Annotated with Clara’s comic sketches, it’s a fast-paced read with a spot-on perspective of life as a 10-year-old that kids will surely relate to.

LEVELING
Grade Range: 3–7
Fountas & Pinnell: R
Lexile: 830L

COMMON CORE
SL.4.1,1b,1d,2,4,6
RF.4.3,3a,4,4a,4c
W.4.4,6,8,9,9a,10
RL.4.1,2,3,4,6,7,10
L.4.3,3a,3b,4,4a,5,5a,5b,6

ANNA HUMPHREY dreamt of being a writer since she was a teenager. And those dreams came true with the publication of her first YA novel, Mission (Un)Popular, published by Disney/Hyperion. Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers will be Anna’s fourth book. She lives in Kitchener, ON.

LISA CINAR is an illustrator, educator, picture book enthusiast, pattern lover, and owner of the online shop Draw Me A Lion. She has written and illustrated two picture books (see below), and she enjoys teaching classes on picture-book illustration at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design’s Continuing Studies department. Lisa lives in Vancouver, BC.