Lucky's bravery is evident as she collects insects and scares away snakes. Lucky has a job cleaning up outside the Found Object Wind Chime Museum where she eavesdrops on twelve step meetings for comfort and yearns to find her own Higher Power to help her make sense of her not-so-lucky life. She has bits of evidence that Brigitte may be planning to return to France and Lucky is convinced she will be left behind. She is living in a trailer with her father's first wife, Brigitte, in the town of Hard Pan (population 43) on the edge of the Mohave Desert in California. Ten year old Lucky's mother has died and her father has abandoned her. Winner of the 2007 Newbery Medal, The Higher Power of Lucky is a strong book with unforgettable characters and a gentle sense of humor bringing life to the classic plot of an abandoned child trying to find her place in the world.
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