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The Higher Power of Lucky

By: Susan Patron
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Lucky, age 10, 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 Tiers. Just as bad, she'll have to give up eavesdropping on 12-step anonymous programs, where the interesting talk is all about Higher Powers. Lucky needs her own "higher power" - 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.
©2006 Susan Patron (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
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Critic Reviews

  • Newbery Medal Winner, 2007

"Patron's plotting is as tight as her characters are endearing." (Booklist)

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