A Big Dose of Lucky

Loved this book. From racism, homophobia, and poverty, there is a lot of intersectionality shared more in this book than in any of the others because Malou is the only character among the orphans with brown skin. (Many of the books mention these issues briefly, but it's much stronger in this case.)......more

This is so Canadian, and so 60s, and so cute, and so quality.......more

It was a good book unfortunately I don't know that I can have it in my library as there is some pages that are quite descriptive about sex. I run a Catholic elementary library and I don't think it would be something that would be well received by some of the parents. It is a good story has great fee......more

When an orphan sets out to find out about her family she didn't know that finding her roots would be so difficult. But she is African American and the year is 1964 so this might be a little more difficult than she thought. What she finds might undo an entire town or at least a small group of her fri......more

Perhaps because I've already finished other installments in this series, I found the first part of the story, in which Malou receives her clue and gets settled in Parry Sound, very tedious to read. However, the last half of the book contained revelations that were genuinely surprising and wound up d......more