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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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Lucky for Good By: Susan Patron
Illustrated by: Erin McGuire
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
For eleven-year old Lucky, the universe is full of questions. Is that mysterious woman at the café Miles’s mom? Does her father not talk to her because he hates her? Will the Health Department ruin everything? Is she...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe By: Susan Patron
Illustrated by: Abigail Halpin
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 8 - 10
the jam in the sandwich Sometimes that's how PK feels, squeezed in between her supersmart older sister, Megan, and her superadorable younger sister, Rabbit -- especially now, with Megan almost a teenager and becoming...
Other Formats: eBook
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Lucky Breaks By: Susan Patron
Illustrated by: Matt Phelan
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Things are fairly normal in Hard Pan, population forty-three. But to Lucky, fairly normal means fairly boring, and she’s restless. Just in the nick of time, she meets a potential new best friend named Paloma, who happens...
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The Higher Power of Lucky By: Susan Patron
Illustrated by: Matt Phelan
This edition: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publication date: November 7, 2006
Ages: 9 - 11
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback