Cirrus@Austlit

'Studious (don't-call-me-nerdy) Airlie Sanderson is torn between two wishes: she really wants the latest and greatest Brain Computer Interface kit - but she has always wanted a real live kitten. When her 11th birthday finally arrives, both of these gifts seem to play a role in turning her life upside down.

'As the weeks pass, Airlie finds that her kitten Sooty is helping her see the world in a different way.

'Somehow, together, they can see things that she didn't quite see before, that she couldn't possibly have seen. Gradually she gets a reputation as she uses her new-found psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes.

'Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing invitations: an offer of a scholarship to a new middle school with 'opportunity classes' in exotic subjects like Quantum Psychology, and a free place at a summer camp run by Inspector Humble. The two invitations and her emergent psionic talents are clearly connected, and Airlie can't resist the opportunity to learn more about her gifts and to meet others with psyq powers at the camp.

'But Airlie ends up in a desperate race to rescue one of her new friends.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.