When a skeptical Zoe has her fortune told at a carnival, and the fortune-teller gives her a special necklace, she starts a run of bad luck that leads her to believe she may be under a curse and that something terrible may be about to happen.
Frannie opens a fortune telling business after assisting Star, who reads tarot cards at a party for Frannie's father, but she discovers making up fortunes can cause a lot of trouble, in chapter-book format.
Thirteen-year-old Eve consults tarot cards to see if she will achieve her goal of being a famous singer one day, and in the meantime, decides to try out for the school musical.
Third-grader Nancy tries her hand at fortune-telling but quickly learns it is a bit more complicated than she thought; and amateur sleuth Nancy Clancy and her best friend Bree find a silver key in an old desk and hope to the unlock the secret of the key in hopes of finding some treasure.
When Rebecca helps her injured neighbor, Mr. Rossi, by caring for his pigeons, she discovers a strange black pigeon with an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and consults a fortune teller to learn if she is in danger, as well.
"Cheerful Ruby LaRue and her shy friend Eleanor Bandaranaike couldn't be more different. Ruby has lived her whole life in the small ski town of Paris, New Hampshire. Eleanor's family comes from Sri Lanka. But these unlikely best friends share one thing: they both have BIG plans. So when a mysterious fortune teller urges them to go outside their world to unlock their dreams, they plunge down a whirlwind path to try to reach their goals."--Goodreads.
This book covers fortune-telling techniques and prophecy from the earliest civilizations throughout the world through modern attempts to predict upcoming events.
Madame Karitska has never known whether her gift of prophecy is a curse or a blessing, and when an attache case is dropped in her lap by a man fleeing a crowded subway, she knows it is time to consult her good friend Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, and together find themselves involved in a bizarre case of violence and murder.
Contains three creepy stories for young readers, involving a fortune-teller and a magic spell, two rotting Egyptian mummies, and a group of students with monstrous appetites.
