Young Adult Fiction Orphans & Foster Homes
Just Lucky
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Orphans & Foster Homes, Bullying, Girls & Women
- Recommended Age
- 13 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 12
- Recommended Reading age
- 13 to 18
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772601046
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $15.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772601053
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $13.99
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781772602975
- Publish Date
- May 2022
- List Price
- $18.99
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Description
Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things…like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t.
Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?
About the author
MELANIE FLORENCE est une autrice primée d’origine crie et écossaise qui vit à Toronto, en Ontario. Elle a écrit Sans Nimâmâ, qui lui a valu le prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse en 2016 ainsi que le prix Golden Oak de la Forêt de la lecture en 2017, et une nomination à titre de finaliste aux prix First Nations Communities READ, la même année. Son album Les mots volés a remporté le prix Ruth et Sylvia Schwartz de littérature jeunesse en 2018, en plus d’être finaliste au prix Marilyn Baillie. Parmi ses autres livres, on compte Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools et les romans pour adolescents Just Lucky, He Who Dreams, The Missing, One Night et Rez Runaway. Elle a également coécrit Autumn Bird and the Runaway avec Richard Scrimger.
MELANIE FLORENCE is an award-winning writer of Cree and Scottish heritage based in Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Missing Nimâmâ, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the 2017 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and was a finalist for the 2017 First Nation Communities READ award. Her most recent picture book, Stolen Words, won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and was a finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Her other books include Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools and the teen novels Just Lucky, He Who Dreams, The Missing, One Night, and Rez Runaway. Visit her at https://www.melanieflorence.com/.
Editorial Reviews
An uplifting and hopeful #ownvoices novel revealing the complexities of foster care and the heartbreak of dementia.
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