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A review by lwhite0889
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
3.0
Newbery Medal winner - 2007
This is a short, sweet, and atmospheric realistic fiction novel centered around a girl named Lucky. Lucky lives in a tiny town (population 43) in the Mojave desert with her guardian. The book is set two years after the death of Lucky's mother, and is a sort of coming of age story, chronicling her journey to understand the relationship between herself and her guardian, and herself and her grief for her mother.
The story and prose are simple, and the story moves at a sedate but steady pace. Nothing about the book, however, struck me as particularly remarkable. The book doesn't seem to portray the main character's major struggles (grief, emotional abandonment, poverty) in a way that would resonate with children dealing with the same issues, and it certainly didn't treat those issues in a way that particularly resonated with me.
This is a short, sweet, and atmospheric realistic fiction novel centered around a girl named Lucky. Lucky lives in a tiny town (population 43) in the Mojave desert with her guardian. The book is set two years after the death of Lucky's mother, and is a sort of coming of age story, chronicling her journey to understand the relationship between herself and her guardian, and herself and her grief for her mother.
The story and prose are simple, and the story moves at a sedate but steady pace. Nothing about the book, however, struck me as particularly remarkable. The book doesn't seem to portray the main character's major struggles (grief, emotional abandonment, poverty) in a way that would resonate with children dealing with the same issues, and it certainly didn't treat those issues in a way that particularly resonated with me.