This Newbery Medal Book is just so slow and dull that you will have no desire to read it. Do not waste your time reading it.

My son and I read this together for a book reprot in forth grade. Despite the lack of action, we were both drawn into the plight of a little girl whose life feels so precarious that she turns to the twelve steps to regain a sense of power over her fate. The themes of loss, insecurity, community and identity are simply rendered in a way that my young son had no problem identifying the importance of a higher power for us all. I thought this book was lovely and profound and have reccomended it to adult readers as well as children. Ignore the fuss over the anatomic language in the first chapter and if your really concerend, read the book first before you give it to your child (a practice I reccommend with any book regardless of the awards it receives.) Good luck and good reading!

in my opinion, i don't really like it!

I loved this book. I am a 25 year old going to school to be a elementary school teacher and had to read it for class. I think this book was very good. For the use of the the one word that everyone knocks this book about I feel that using the correct term (in which Patron did) is better then using slang for it. For the use of drugs, alcohol, and smoking, it is all done by adults and not a single child does anything bad in the book with these.

I thought thi book, The Higher Power of Lucky, is a wonderful book! It's Funny, has good characters, and it has a goo theme! It teaches kids a good moral to remeber, and its hilarious! And theres nothing really bad for the use of the inaporpreate word, they just use it to say where a dog was bit.