How To Get Magically Popular

Name: How To Get Magically Popular
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

by Radhika Sanghani

Interest age: 9 to 13
Reading age: 9+

Published by Usborne, 2025

Coming-of-age
Diversity and inclusion

About this book

Moving to a new school in a new town in Year 8 was never going to be easy, but it’s been weeks now and Sabina still hasn’t made any friends.

So when she joins a yoga class at school and finds herself enjoying the mindfulness and meditation, she hopes it will give her a connection to her classmates.

What she hadn’t expected was the weird visions she starts to get. Visions that seem to predict the future...

When she begins to share her visions, she’s suddenly the most popular girl in the school, with endless requests for predicting test answers, class election results, and prom dates. But she soon questions whether her ability is a gift or a curse and whether being noticed for the wrong reasons is better than not being noticed at all.

This funny yet thought-provoking exploration of the nature of friendship and learning to live in the present is a great coming-of-age story.

With a cast of diverse characters and an interesting mother-daughter relationship, Sabina’s personal journey demonstrates perfectly how we sometimes need to make mistakes so we can learn to make better decisions in the future.

About the author

Radhika Sanghani is an award-winning journalist, author and screenwriter. Her book The Girl Who Couldn’t Lie is one of the Bookbuzz titles for 2025, telling a fresh, funny story about white lies, brutal honesty and a bangle with special powers!

Radhika’s work as a journalist has featured in many newspapers and magazines and she appears regularly on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She is a screenwriter and graduate of the 2020 BBC Comedy Writers Room as well as a TedX speaker on body positivity, a yoga teacher and runs a charity initiative with AgeUK fighting loneliness in older women.