The Higher Power of Lucky
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship
3.4
Susan Patron
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she'll be abandoned to some orphanage in Los Angeles where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won't be allowed. She'll have to lose her friends Miles, who lives on cookies, and Lincoln, future U.S. president (maybe) and member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Just as bad, she'll have to give up eavesdropping on twelve-step anonymous programs where the interesting talk is all about Higher Powers. Lucky needs her own -- and quick. But she hadn't planned on a dust storm. Or needing to lug the world's heaviest survival-kit backpack into the desert.
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Author
Susan Patron
Pages
144
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2007-03-20
ISBN
1416953957 9781416953951
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"This book has a rather dull start and a spectacularly strong finish. About a third of the way through, the first interesting thing happens with the snake chapter. And the conflict and adventure is all jammed up at the end with the dust storm. There is a remarkable lack of emotion considering the hardship that has befallen this ten year old, something detached, as would befit an adult narrator looking back on an event from childhood rather than a child actively experiencing everything."
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