The Higher Power of Lucky
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2006]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Contents:
Eavesdropping -- Brigitte -- Good and bad -- Graffiti -- Miles -- How Brigitte came -- Tarantula hawk wasp -- Snake -- Short Sammy's -- The urn -- Smokers anonymous -- Parsley -- Bisous -- The first sign -- The second sign and the third sign -- Getting ready to run away -- HMS beagle disobeys -- Cholla burr -- Eggs and beans -- A good book -- Amazing grace -- Bonne nuit -- By and by.
Subjects:
Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction.
Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: Ages 9-11.
ISBN:
1416901949 (hardcover)
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C Patron | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Patron | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
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Please Display: 2007 Newbery Award Winner |
Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's Fiction | In |
C Patron | Edgewood | Children's Fiction | In |
C Patron | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Fiction | In |
More Formats
"A Richard Jackson book."
John Newbery Medal, 2007.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
John Newbery Medal, 2007.
A Junior Library Guild selection.