The Higher Power of Lucky

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• The Higher Power of Lucky By Susan Patron

  In a ballroom in the Seattle convention center, filled with a couple thousand librarians and other folks who love children's books, author and librarian Susan Patron's life changed in January when her book, The Higher Power of Lucky, was named as the ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

• THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY by Susan Patron and Matt Phelan

  written by Susan Patron illustrated by Matt Phelan Aladdin Paperbacks Hardcover: 1416901949 Paperback: 9781416975571 Ages 9-11 160 pages It's been two years since Lucky Trimble's mother died from accidental electrocution after a bad desert storm. Sin ... (read full critics)

  kidsreads published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

3 Reviews

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  Seemed a pretty mature book for a children's book.

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  guiltlessreader aka screamingbanshee said on Nov 18, 2008 | Add your feedback

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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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  Readingrat said on Jun 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

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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 5, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 144 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1416901949
• ISBN-13: 9781416901945
• Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
• Pub date: Nov 07, 2006
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書

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