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King wowed audiences with this year's surprise Printz Honor Award winner, Please Ignore Vera Dietz. She follows with an equally insightful and subtly humorous story of a teen's recovery from bullying. Fifteen-year-old Lucky's family identifies itself totally with the POW-MIA movement-so much so that Lucky regularly visits his missing grandfather in the Vie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Lucky Linderman has been tortured by Nader McMillan since they were seven, when Nader inexplicably peed on him in a restaurant bathroom. Now it's the summer before sophomore year, and ever since Lucky unintentionally got the bully in trouble with his social-studies survey about suicide, Nader's harassment has escalated. What's more, everyone thinks Lucky is serious about killing himself, and in addition to this and the bullying, his parents' marriage is falling apart. The only way Lucky can escape his life is through a touch of mys...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman isn't exactly lucky. His entire family bears emotional scars -- his workaholic dad from growing up with a POW/MIA father and a mother obsessed with finding him, Lucky's mom from being bullied by her workaholic husband, and Lucky himself from years of torture by a bully at school. The author's Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz contained elements of magic realism; here the story is infused...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman's family bears emotional scars. His workaholic dad's issues stem from having a POW/MIA father and a mother obse...Log In or Sign Up to Read More