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Lucky is a girl being raised in the California desert by her stepmother, but who worries that she will lose her to homesickness. Her stepmother is French, and misses her own mother and home.
There was a lot of hoopla over the word scrotum in this book, but really, this is a slight story not worth all the excitement. It's a Newbery Award winner, for what it's worth, but I don't think it has the universal appeal of a book like Holes. ...more
There was a lot of hoopla over the word scrotum in this book, but really, this is a slight story not worth all the excitement. It's a Newbery Award winner, for what it's worth, but I don't think it has the universal appeal of a book like Holes. ...more
The Higher Power of Lucky is a brilliantly told story whose surface clarity and simplicity reveals,as lucidly as looking into a deep pool, an intensity of emotion and a reality of feeling.
I got a little more poetic there than is strictly speaking necessary, but it is such a wondrous book.
I got a little more poetic there than is strictly speaking necessary, but it is such a wondrous book.
Oddly slow moving for a children's book. I like that it's about poor people, but it's not didactic or moralizing. It's just about a kid's adventures, except they involve living in a trailer and eating government surplus food.
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