The sign says: “Slow Children at Play.” Miles, a beginning reader intensely interested in signs, has asked Lincoln about this sign does it mean that children in Hard Pan move slowly, or that they are stupid? Lincoln changes the sign to read, “Slow: Children at Play.” Lucky calls the change “Presidential.” Her mother has been killed in a freak accident, her father is missing, and she is being cared for by her father’s former girlfriend, Brigitte, in a tiny town at the edge of the California desert.Įarly in the story, Lucky’s friend Lincoln (so named because his parents want him to be President) asks her to bring a black marker and meet him by a sign on the school bus route. This middle grade novel, which won the Newbery Medal, is about a ten-year-old girl, Lucky. Originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 18(4): 1. Review of The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006).
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