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Lucky for Good

This is the final book in the Hard Pan trilogy and it is a wonderful, entertaining and clean read for 4th – 7th graders.  The main character is Lucky, a spunky and smart 6th grade girl who has been adopted after her mother dies.  She lives in a small desert town of under 50 people ,which she dearly loves.  Her adopted mother, Brigitte, is French and has a cafe which she runs from their trailer home.  All is well until the health department comes on the scene to shut them down since they operate out of their home rather than a commercial kitchen.  The whole town rallies to solve this problem and in the meantime, Lucky deals with a bully, a sweet budding first love who has to go away for the summer, and challenges with her absent father.  The characters are well developed and grow through the book and the illustrations compliment the storyline.   It’s no wonder that the first book in the series The Higher Power of Lucky, won the 2007 Newberry Medal.