Clara O'Hara Private Eye

by Megan Hoyt, Luigi Savino (Illustrator)

"Flames swept across four square miles, destroying everything in their path. Everyone wanted to know--who started the great Chicago fire? Clara knew it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow, like the newspaper reporter had said. Clara would have to become a super sleuth to figure out this mystery"--

32 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2019

About the author

Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home, and Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk. Her award-winning picture book biography, BARTALI'S BICYCLE, with Harper Collins Children's Books' new imprint, Quill Tree Books, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL, KATI'S TINY MESSENGERS, AND A GRAND IDEA followed, also with Quill Tree Books. TZIMMES FOR TZIPPORAH, her first Jewish-themed picture book came out in 2023 with Apples and Honey Press. Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019). Her first picture book, HILDEGARD'S GIFT, came out in 2014.