Lucky for Good / Susan Patron / 208 pages / Notable Children's book 2012

This is the third book in Hard Pan trilogy.  The first was the Newbery Award winner The Higher Power of Lucky which was somewhat controversial due to some inappropriate language.   In Lucky for Good, Lucky's mom's Hard Pan Cafe is threatened with closure to health code violations.  The people of the town rally to save the cafe, although in an entirely different form than the reader might have anticipated.  After being sent to the principal's office for fighting, Lucky is assigned a family tree project.  She is able to unearth some valuable insights about her father, her adoptive French mother, friendship, and community.  Her family tree is multi-trunked - her biological family and her family of the heart.