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. Or needing to lug the world's heaviest survival-kit backpack into the desert. Just as bad, she'll have to give up eavesdropping on twelve-step anonymous programs where the interesting talk is all about Higher Powers.
president (maybe) and member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. She'll have to lose her friends Miles, who lives on cookies, and Lincoln, future U.S. 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. It's all Brigitte's fault - for wanting to go back to France. 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. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-old Lucky runs away from her small town with her beloved dog by her side in order to trek across the Mojave Desert in this Newbery Medal–winning novel from Susan Patron. Their relationship is resolved when Brigitte reveals she is not moving away. During this great misadventure, she inadvertently saves the life of a child.
Worried that her new guardian will abandon her, Lucky seeks help from her "Higher Power." After discovering three "signs" to leave, Lucky runs away with her dog during a sandstorm. About the Novel: In a small town in the California desert, a 10-year-old girl named Lucky is looked after by her new guardian Brigitte, after her mother dies. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts.
The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. In this State Standards-aligned Literature Kit™, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions.
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