Just Lucky

Name: Just Lucky
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Melanie Florence
ISBN: 9781772602975

Author: Melanie Florence

Narrator: Michelle Bardach

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 05/30/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Family, Girls & Women, Social Themes, Bullying

Synopsis

There’s nothing lucky about your family falling apart. Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things … like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hristina on June 10, 2019

What this book does best is bring the emotional roller coaster of being in the foster care system to the page with such vividness that it sucks you in. Just Lucky is heartfelt, heartbreaking, but hopeful at the same time and it's all balanced perfectly. I really enjoyed the characters, I thought they......more

Goodreads review by Moony on April 17, 2019

I was provided this ARC in exhange for a honest review by Second Story Press & Melanie Florence atNetGalley This book review can also be found at my blog Moony's book blog This book gave me all these kind of emotions. I was laughing but the next I was sad, then I was furious and somewhat empty. I fel......more

Goodreads review by Samantha (WLABB) on September 08, 2019

Lucky always felt fortunate to be part of a loving trio: her, her grandfather, and her grandmother, but she knew something was wrong with her grandmother. She had been forgetting and becoming more and more confused each day. After her grandfather's sudden death, Lucky was left to care for her grandm......more

Goodreads review by Madison on October 10, 2019

3.5 stars. Just Lucky is a touching story about a girl’s journey through losing the only home and family she has ever known and a series of foster homes as she learns to embrace her new reality. When Lucky’s grandfather suddenly dies, it’s not long before someone realises that her grandmother is unwe......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on November 24, 2019

Mostly, Lucky Robinson has lived up to her name. She lives her Cree grandparents in a nice house and attends a school she loves and has a best friend Ryan. But then her luck runs out: Her grandfather dies, and Lucky discovers that her grandmother’s “forgetfulness” is a lot worse than just that. So L......more