The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
Mar. 9th, 2007 05:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookfrogLucky is ten years old. She lives with her guardian in a small town--Pop. 43. Lucky has one of the only paying jobs in town, sweeping up the porch of the museum after the twelve-step program meetings. She likes to listen in on the meetings, hearing the rock-bottom stories and how people found their higher powers. Lucky is still looking for hers.
Lucky's mother is dead, and she's worried that Brigitte, her guardian, will leave her and go back to France. Brigitte is Lucky's father's first ex-wife.
Lucky likes certain words, and she wants to be a scientist, so she collects bugs.
This book is in trouble because certain people object to a word Lucky hears and doesn't know the meaning of ("scrotum"). I would like to thank these people for protesting (even if it did mean that I was calling it "that nutsack book" up until I read it), because otherwise I might never have heard of this book.
And I love it.
Lucky's mother is dead, and she's worried that Brigitte, her guardian, will leave her and go back to France. Brigitte is Lucky's father's first ex-wife.
Lucky likes certain words, and she wants to be a scientist, so she collects bugs.
This book is in trouble because certain people object to a word Lucky hears and doesn't know the meaning of ("scrotum"). I would like to thank these people for protesting (even if it did mean that I was calling it "that nutsack book" up until I read it), because otherwise I might never have heard of this book.
And I love it.
