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Title	:	The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Susan Patron
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2006 by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Categories	:	Realistic Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult. Juvenile. Chapter Books

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Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-old Lucky runs away from her small town with her beloved dog by her side in order to trek across the Mojave Desert in this Newbery Medal–winning novel from 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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Original Title:	The Higher Power of Lucky
ISBN:	1416901949 (ISBN13: 9781416901945)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Hard Pan Trilogy #1
Characters:	Lucky Trimble
Setting:	California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal (2007), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2008)

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Im not sure what can be said about this that hasnt already been saidits a good book, a very pretty book, somewhat atmospheric, in its way. But theres not a lot of action. Its another in the Newbery committees standards: a book with a strong character who has some internal conflict, but not a whole lot happens externally. In this particular case, I think it worked better than, say, Criss Cross, because THPOL really is about being in a town thats perfectly happy with the status quo. The big

Overall, I just can't understand why this book won the Newbery, unless it was a sad year for children's lit. I just started listening to another Newbery book, A Wrinkle in Time," and in the introduction, the author comments that adults don't understand this book, but children "get it." I feel like this book is the exact opposite; I'm sure some adults felt like it was deep and meaningful and rich, but I suspect many children will find it a bit dull and depressing. Also, I found the book to be a

This book was so much fun and very funny. Awesome read for children and parents.I read this book with my daughter, who loved it even more than I did, and we laughed out loud so many times when Brigitte says Oh, la-la, la-LA, la-LA, la-LA!.Brigitte is a character, she lives with Lucky as a guardian : she had learned to say Brigittes name the French wayBree-JEETinstead of the American way, BRIDGE-it.Lucky is an orphan, her mom died. She lives with a guardian, Brigitte, an ex of her fathers. When

This book may ring a bell because of the laughable controversy stirred up over the use of the word "scrotum" in a blink-and-you'll-miss it reference about a snake biting someone's pet dog. Ironically, the author probably chose the clinical term on purpose to avoid trouble, since the significantly rough-around-the-edges character who tells the story would almost certainly phrase it quite differently had he been a flesh and blood figure, but what can you do? As silly as this is, I feel like I have

This is one of my favorite Newbery books to date!!!!Once again, I am in awe of the ability of YA books to reach out and tug at heartstrings while dealing with very complex issues.I highly recommend this profoundly moving tale of Lucky, a rough and tumble ten year old whose mother died tragically and thus now is in the guardianship of her father's previous wife Brigitte.Brigitte moves from France to temporarily take care of Lucky until a "real" home can be found.Living in three tiny connected

This Newbery Award winner was a really sweet book. Ten year old Lucky struggles to find her place. After listening in on 12-step programs for various addictions, Lucky seeks to find her higher power. Her mother died only a couple years ago, and to her knowledge, she has never met her father. When she fears that guardian Brigette wants to leave her and return to France, Lucky runs away to find her higher power. The town, Hard Pan, has a population of 43, and the characters presented are as

The Higher Power of Lucky tells the story of Lucky, an anxiety-ridden ten-year-old girl in the dusty Mojave village of Hard Pan, population: 43. After the death of her mother two years ago, and being abandoned by her father, Lucky is in the care of her father's first wife, a French woman named Brigitte. Lucky constantly frets that Brigitte will leave and return to France. To make Brigitte stay, Lucky decides to run away into the desert.Lucky, to me, vacillated between "adults woman writing a