Resolution: Lucky learns Brigitte is adopting her and is finally able to release her mother’s ashes in the wind.

Rising Action: Life as normal in a podunk desert town – visiting with Lincoln, preparing the Ant Report, entertaining Miles, visiting Shorty Sam.Ĭlimax: Lucky discovers Brigitte’s passport and is convinced she’s returning to Paris and Lucky will be sent to an orphanage or foster home.įalling Action: Lucky runs away on the same afternoon that Miles disappears and the windstorm strikes. In 2010 Patron went on to continue Luckys story with Lucky. Meanwhile she continues on her search for that elusive ‘higher power’ of the anonymous people that will guide her in the right direction. The Higher Power of Lucky was Susan Patrons 2007 Newberry award-winning middle-grade book. Then he says, ‘Oh! Oh! LUCK-y!’ because I have been saying this name with my accent the way I did before, ‘LU-key.’Įxposition: On the edge of the Mojave Desert in California, recently-orphaned Lucky Trimble lives in a canned-ham trailer with her French guardian, Brigitte.Ĭonflict: Lucky carries a ‘survival backpack’ with her wherever she goes, because she’s sure she’ll be on her own again soon. We can hear her accent and occasional frustrations with English.

The author also incorporates Brigitte’s french language into the story very realistically. Patron’s use of figurative language and precise vocabulary create authentic experiences that allow reader’s imaginations to run wild. Her regular clothes were faded from many washings and from the sun, but the redness of this dress was the same thing for your eyes as a sonic boom is for your ears, or a jalapeno pepper is for your mouth.

The power of lucky