This final novel in the Hard Pan trilogy finds eleven-year-old Lucky living a comfortable life in the small town of Hard Pan, California with her adoptive mother Brigitte interacting with the local quirky characters and helping in Brigitte’s Hard Pan Cafe. Challenges come like health department threatening to shut down the café, losing a good friend Lincoln, and the return of six-year-old Miles’s mother from prison with strong religious beliefs. Lucky worries that Justine will take Miles away from Hard Pan. And she ponders about her long absent father and works to find his sister. Patron incorporates bits of poetry, genealogy, and health ordinances along with Lucky’s contemplation of a Higher Power and her first kiss with aplomb. Readers will enjoy the upbeat ending as Patron ends all the plot lines.
2012 Notable Children's Recording
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