My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2011
Gr 4–6—As the third book in Patron's series opens, the tiny desert town of Hard Pan (population 43) is bustling. Lucky's adoptive mother, Brigitte, who has opened a small café, gets an unwelcome visit from the county health inspector, who threatens to shut things down. Miles's mother, Justine, is sprung from jail and is full of newfound religious platitudes. This causes her supremely scientific son no small amount of grief. Lucky gets i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Just as things are going smoothly for eleven-year-old Lucky and her now-officially adoptive mom Brigitte (The Higher Power of Lucky, rev. 1/07; Lucky Breaks, rev. 3/09), trouble arrives in the form of county inspector Stu Burping, tasked to shut down Brigitte's Hard Pan Café. The community, not one to suffer bureaucrats gladly, rallies in a most spectacular way to save the place. Meanwhile, as punishment for punching out Mr. Burping's xenophobic nephew, Ollie, Lucky must draw up a family tree—no mean feat for the girl wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Just as things are going smoothly for Lucky and Brigitte (<i>The Higher Power of Lucky</i>, <i>Lucky Breaks</i>), trouble arrives in the form of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
