Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2006. Third printing of the first edition hard cover with dust jacket, NF/NF. Inscribed and signed by Susan Patron on title page. Otherwise unmarked, tight, crisp copy, just slightly rubbed at spine ends. Dust jacket has original price on front flap and is offered in new mylar cover. 134pp, illustrations by Matt Phelan. John Newbery Medal Winner.. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

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Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she'll be abandoned to some orphanage in Los Angeles where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won't be allowed. She'll have to lose her friends Miles, who lives on cookies, and Lincoln, future U.S. president (maybe) and member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Just as bad, she'll have to give up eavesdropping on twelve-step anonymous programs where the interesting talk is all about Higher Powers. Lucky needs her own -- and quick. But she hadn't planned on a dust storm. Or needing to lug the world's heaviest survival-kit backpack into the desert.

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Bookseller: Turn-The-Page Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 24843
Title: The Higher Power of Lucky
Author: Patron, Susan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
ISBN 10: 1416901949
ISBN 13: 9781416901945
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2006
Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall

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