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  • The Higher Power of Lucky

  • A touching story of love and loss and finding the family you seek among the people around you who love you.

    

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  • The writing was good, I just didn't particularly care for the storyline...girl's mom dies by electrocution, girl's father won't raise her, so girl's father's first wife from France moves to the States to raise her in a podunk town in the middle of the desert? I didn't find that to be very believabl ... Continue

    The writing was good, I just didn't particularly care for the storyline...girl's mom dies by electrocution, girl's father won't raise her, so girl's father's first wife from France moves to the States to raise her in a podunk town in the middle of the desert? I didn't find that to be very believable. I'm surprised it won the Newbery Award. But I don't mean to make it sound terrible. It was a cute story. I most enjoyed the two boys who were supporting characters in the story. Maybe the author could focus on them in a future novel?

    

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• ― Xanwater said on May 4, 2007 | Add your feedback

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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