Lizzy and the Good Luck Girl
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
Told with humor and heart, this is a middle grade story about family, friendship, and hope -- plus cats in sweaters!
Living in the small town of East Thumb, Maine, upstairs from her family's diner, twelve-year-old Lizzy Sherman searches for signs to guide her and perhaps guarantee her a bump-free path through life. She pays attention to the clouds in the sky, the ice cubes in her water, the heart-shaped puddle of the juice her friend spilled. If only she can figure out what the signs are trying to tell her, she'll know what to do next.
When Lizzy and her best friend go searching for a stray cat and find a runaway girl instead, they want to help. And when Lizzy notices a tiny four-leaf clover tattooed on the girl's hand, she knows it's a sign. Lizzy hides the girl inside her bedroom closet, convinced the girl will be able to protect Lizzy's family from tragedy. But signs can be tricky, and what the girl has to offer may be more valuable that luck.
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Lizzy, 12, lives above her family's diner, the Thumbs-Up, in East Thumb, Maine. Ever since a car accident two years earlier caused her mother to lose the baby she was carrying, Lizzy has been watchful for signs of things to come: when leaves swirl at her feet in the wind, for example, does it signify trouble brewing or an opportunity? Lizzy and her best friend, Joss, volunteer at an animal shelter and are knitting cat sweaters that they hope to sell to raise funds. When they follow a stray into an abandoned building, they discover Charlotte, a girl who has run away to escape trouble at home. After the building burns down, Lizzy invites Charlotte to hide in her bedroom, in part because she sees Charlotte's temporary tattoo of a four-leaf clover as a sign of good luck for her family's soon-to-arrive baby. But when Charlotte's family searches desperately for her (and it turns out that cats don't care for sweaters), Lizzy must learn to accept uncertainty. Characters are fully formed, and town details bring the reader into her world. Lizzy's struggles to adjust when events don't go according to plan are easily relatable in this coming-of-age journey that celebrates embracing the messiness of real life. Ages 8 12.)
