{"id":440,"date":"2009-04-19T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/review-of-lucky-breaks-by-susan-patron\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:53:06","slug":"review-of-lucky-breaks-by-susan-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Review of Lucky Breaks, by Susan Patron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lucky Breaks<\/em><\/p>\n

by Susan Patron<\/p>\n

ginee seo books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 2009.\u00a0 181 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred review.<\/p>\n

Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #4 Other Children’s Fiction<\/p>\n

Lucky, who is about to turn eleven, is someone I can’t help loving.\u00a0 She’s intrepid, but she doesn’t always use the best judgment.\u00a0 She’s a good friend with a big heart, but she sometimes does mean things in spite of herself.\u00a0 Susan Patron writes in a way that makes you feel for Lucky as if you yourself were, once again, almost almost eleven.<\/p>\n

Lucky Breaks <\/em>is a sequel to the Newbery-winning The Higher Power of Lucky.<\/em>\u00a0 The themes are bigger in the first book, because Lucky’s dealing with the death of her mother and hoping Brigitte will adopt her.\u00a0 While the issues in the second book are not as cosmic, they are still important — finding and keeping friends.<\/p>\n

This book finds Lucky still helping Brigitte settle into Hard Pan, California, and she meets someone she hopes will become her best friend — a girl to laugh with until they hiccup.<\/p>\n

But Paloma’s parents are worried about their daughter spending time in the dangerous desert.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Lincoln is working on a mysterious knotting project that may take him away from Hard Pan.<\/p>\n

Susan Patron’s characters are quirky in so many delightful ways.\u00a0 Miles’ favorite book has shifted from Go, Dog. Go! <\/em>to Brain Surgery for Beginners.<\/em>\u00a0 Short Sammy is digging a mysterious pit.\u00a0 And Brigitte is figuring out what makes\u00a0a person truly\u00a0American.\u00a0 You can’t help but feel that they are real people, friends about whom you’re eager to hear the latest news.<\/p>\n

As for Lucky — She’s the same exuberant, intrepid, scientifically curious, rarely cautious, delightful young lady\u00a0we met\u00a0before, a little further along in her amazing journey of growing up.<\/p>\n

Susan Patron promises a third book after this one.\u00a0 I hope she writes quickly!<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on Sonderbooks<\/a> at: www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/lucky_breaks.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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