The Higher Power of Lucky

Version: Unabridged
Author: Susan Patron
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Genres: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Listening Library
Date: January 2007
Length: 3 hours, 38 minutes
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Overview

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.

Author Details

Author Details

Patron, Susan

Susan Patron specialized in Children's Services for 35 years at the Los Angeles Public Library before retiring in 2007, the same year her novel "The Higher Power of Lucky" was awarded the John Newbery Medal. As the library's Juvenile Materials Collection Development Manager, she trained and mentored children's librarians in 72 branches. Patron has served on many book award committees, including the Caldecott and Laura Ingalls Wilder Committees of the American Library Association. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

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