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Can you name this YA fiction book?
So I can't remember any names. Just random things about this book but I've been trying to figure out the title. So all I remember is a girl is the oddball in her family. Her family all has powers but she never got hers. Her grandma is suppose to be the "leader" of them and she predicted this girl was suppose to be the most powerful of them all but she was really the biggest disapointment. And she had a said that had the power to minipulate people. And an older gentlemen comes to the girls work to find a book and he cuts her wrist. (May seem random but for some reason I rememberthis was an important detail) and then an old friend comes to help this girl and his power is traveling in time. And for some reason I think something was trapped in an old clock.. so they had to go back in time for the clock. This is pretty much all I remember. Oh! The grandma gets sick... I think that's why they go looking for the clock, while looking for the clock she runs into a "young" grandma and she introduces herself as her name (the girls name not the grandmas) and in the end she asks her grandma why she named her whatever her name is and the grandma tells her "cuz that's who you introduced yourself as 50years ago, I thought that's what you wanted to be called"
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- tiandronLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Gypsum is the middle child of a family of spellcasters, from a long line of spellcasters. They live in a huge house in Los Angeles in a world that's only slightly different from our contemporary one, if different at all. Magic seems to be slightly more accepted, if still largely unbelievable; other than that, it's a straight contemporary setting.
In Gypsum's family, magic comes sometime during adolescence, with sickness and then awakening. Most of her family gets some form of wish power, the ability to change reality with their thoughts, although it takes widely varying forms and there are specific ways in which it can be used. The book opens with her at the age of twelve, introducing her four siblings, her domineering and often frightening mother, and her magicless but very practical father. Her family fights among themselves (rather nastily at times and aided by a hands-off policy set by her mother) but is also loyal; it's a good portrait of a family that's neither always comfortable nor truly broken. And all of the children are waiting for the day when they transition and gain their power"