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    Hard Pan Trilogy, Book 3, The: Lucky for Good
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    Hard Pan Trilogy, Book 3, The: Lucky for Good

    Written by Susan Patron

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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    About this audiobook

    "Susan Patron writes honest and true, and this, her final Lucky, feel truest of all. I loved it!"-Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor Book The Underneath

    For eleven-year-old Lucky, the universe is full of questions. Is that mysterious woman at the Café Miles's mom? Does Lucky's father not talk to her because he hates her? Will the health department ruin everything? Is she really going to go to hell? The answers are, in no particular order: nearly, no, yes, and a big fat "who knows?"

    But answers are constantly evolving, and sometimes the biggest questions have no answers at all. The best Lucky can do is never give up on maybe understanding things a little better before she turns twelve. It will take a punch in the face (not her face), a near-Café disaster, a trip to the principal's office, and both male and female sofas-but in the end, she'll see that there are loopholes in life and, thankfully, in county health codes!

    The Hard Pan trilogy that began with the Newbery Medal-winning The Higher Power of Lucky concludes with Lucky and all of Hard Pan a little wiser and a lot closer to all our hearts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 9, 2011
    ISBN9780307745903
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    Hard Pan Trilogy, Book 3, The: Lucky for Good
    Author

    Susan Patron

    Susan Patron specialized in Children's Services for 35 years at the Los Angeles Public Library before retiring in 2007, the same year her novel The Higher Power of Lucky was awarded the John Newbery Medal. As the library's Juvenile Materials Collection Development Manager, she trained and mentored children's librarians in 72 branches. Patron has served on many book award committees, including the Caldecott and Laura Ingalls Wilder Committees of the American Library Association. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Patron's previous books for children include the Billy Que trilogy of picture books; Dark Cloud Strong Breeze; and a chapter book, Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe. All earned starred reviews, and the latter was named an ALA Notable book. The Higher Power of Luck will be translated into twelve foreign languages and has been optioned for a motion picture. Married to a rare book restorer from the Champagne region of France, Susan is working on the final book in the "Lucky" trilogy.

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      The third and supposedly final book about Lucky Trimble of Hard Pan, California (population 43) isn't quite as good as the first two, but it's still mighty good. It doesn't quite qualify as a coming-of-age story. At the end of the book there is a little brief hinting that Lucky is growing up, but the real coming of age will have to be imagined, unless Patron decides to go one more round. This book focuses more on the community of Hard Pan coming together to save the restaurant run by Lucky's adoptive mother Brigitte, when the state health department discovers that the restaurant is not in line with one of their codes. There is less substance to this book, but it's a nice revisit to the town and characters I grew to love in the first two books, and Lucky is back to her largely lovable self*. What meat there is deals with Lucky's desire to learn something about the totally absent father she never knew. (*In the second book, Lucky Breaks, her "meanness gland" was bit overactive, making her a less appealing protagonist than in the first book.)