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Starred Review on December 1, 2014 | Grades 5-8
Gr 4–6—Wherever Nate Harlow goes, bad luck seems to follow. He has never even won a coin toss, so it comes as no surprise to many residents of Paradise Beach that it is Nate who gets struck by lightning out of the literal blue on his 11th birthday while playing mini-golf with his friend Genesis Beam. What does come as a big surprise is that Nate's luck seems to change drastically after the strike. All of a sudden, he is winning. Everything. Nate has to decide how h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2015
Life in small-town Paradise Beach on the Gulf of Mexico is all about luck: whether the fish are running, whether charter boats get bookings, and what the weather is like. But luck is something Nate Harlow, target of schoolyard taunts, doesn't have. Of course, his best friend and the smartest girl in the whole county, Gen Beam, tells him there's no such thing as luck; she believes in science and probability. When Nate gets struck by lightning,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
Life in small-town Paradise Beach is all about luck. Nate's best friend and the smartest girl in the county, Gen, says th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More