Young Adult Fiction Orphans & Foster Homes
Just Lucky
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Orphans & Foster Homes, Bullying, Girls & Women
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772601046
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $13.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772601053
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $8.99
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781772602975
- Publish Date
- May 2022
- List Price
- $18.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 13 to 18
- Grade: 8 to 12
- Reading age: 13 to 18
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 auteure canadienne de descendance crie et écossaise. Son premier livre, Jordin Tootoo: The Highs and Lows of the First Inuit to Play in the NHL , a été choisi comme livre d'honneur par l'American Indian Library Association. Ses œuvres de fiction sont le roman pour ados One Night ainsi que l'album illustré Missing Nimama, gagnant du Prix TD de la littérature jeunesse. Melanie habite à Toronto.
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.
Kirkus Reviews
Other titles by Melanie Florence
Legends of Funland
Autumn Bird and the Runaway
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action
Missing Nimâmâ
He Who Dreams
Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs
The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action
Dreaming in Color
kimotinâniwiw itwêwina / Stolen Words
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