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Susan Patron

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. As the library's Juvenile Materials... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. “Children are willing to deal with many dubious subjects that parents think they shouldn’t know about. Children are small courageous people who deal every day with a multitude of problems, just as adults do…What they yearn for most is a bit of truth...
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My life in 8 words: "creative, romantic, humanistic, literary, word-crazed, thankful, private, lucky"
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Lucky for Good has won an award
Sep 26, 2012
Lucky for Good will be released on August 07, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Aug 07, 2012
Lucky for Good is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 07, 2012
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your motto or maxim?
Dec 06, 2011
Dec 06, 2011
News:
Lucky for Good has won an award
Nov 18, 2011
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Sep 13, 2011
Lucky for Good will be released on August 09, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 09, 2011
Lucky for Good is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 09, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Lucky for Good
Jul 29, 2011
News:
Lucky Breaks has won an award
Apr 07, 2011
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Lucky for Good
Jan 05, 2011
News:
Lucky Breaks has won an award
May 06, 2010
Lucky Breaks will be released on May 04, 2010 in Trade Paperback
May 04, 2010
Lucky Breaks is now available in Trade Paperback
May 04, 2010
News:
The Higher Power of Lucky has won an award
Apr 03, 2010

Susan Patron Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. “Children are willing to deal with many dubious subjects that parents think they shouldn’t know about. Children are small courageous people who deal every day with a multitude of problems, just as adults do…What they yearn for most is a bit of truth somewhere.” --Maurice Sendak Learn more about Susan Patron

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Parenting.com, January 31, 2013
...for children. Past winners include Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt, Clare Vanderpool for Moon Over Manifest, Susan Patron for The Higher Power of Lucky and Christopher Paul Curtis for Bud, Not Buddy. This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick Press) tells the...
Yahoo! News, November 13, 2012
...IS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson WHERE IT BEGAN by Ann Redisch Stampler FROGS...
PRWeb, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT...
Pocono Record, October 5, 2012
...Choices this week: "Brave Potatoes" by Toby Speed; "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata; "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron "Dear Blue Sky" by Mary Sullivan, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012, 248 pages, $16.99 hardcover. Read aloud: age 9 and older. Read...
La Mesa Patch, October 3, 2012
...starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday Oct. 4. Past readings have featured the works of Sandra Cisneros, Susan Patron, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, Sherman Alexie, Erica Jong, J.K. Rowling, Lenny Bruce, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, banned...
Media Bistro, July 17, 2012
...?two letters a month written by middle-grade authors like Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler, Adam Rex, Kerry Madden, Natalie Standiford, Susan Patron, Rebecca Stead, Cecil Castelluci, and more.? The service will cost $4.50 per month for U.S. readers, and $9...
School Library Journal, July 10, 2012
...as professional as possible,” says Fadlalla. Homegrown video makers face challenges. Lynne Kelly made the funny video for Susan Patron’s The Higher Power of Lucky (S & S, 2006) for the “90-Second Newbery Film Festival,” a video contest to...
American Banking News, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT BEGAN...
Yahoo! News, November 13, 2012
...IS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson WHERE IT BEGAN by Ann Redisch Stampler FROGS...
Yahoo!, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT BEGAN by Ann...
Yahoo! News, November 13, 2012
...IS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson WHERE IT BEGAN by Ann Redisch Stampler FROGS...
Reuters via Yahoo!, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT BEGAN...
PRWeb, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT...
PRWeb, November 13, 2012
...ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION ETHICAL? by Bonnie Szumski PROPHECIES AND SOOTHSAYERS by Stuart A. Kallen Scholastic: BEHIND THE MASKS by Susan Patron Simon: KING OF THE MOUND by Wes Tooke SECOND CHANCE SUMMER by Morgan Matson Simon Pulse: WHERE IT...