The Thing About Luck

The Thing About Luck

Category: Novels
Sub Category: Trade Books
Collection(s): Award Winning Books
Product Code:

$11.99 each

Subject:
Novels
Publisher:
Atheneum
ISBN: 978-1-4424-7465-9

* National Book Award for Young People's Literature

 * Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 

* Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee

* Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Children

Reading Level by Age : 10 - 14

Reading Level by Grade : G5- G9

  • Description

Summer knows that kouun means “good luck” in Japanese, and this year her family has none of it. Just when she thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, an emergency whisks her parents away to Japan—right before harvest season. Summer and her little brother, Jaz, are left in the care of their grandparents, who come out of retirement in order to harvest wheat and help pay the bills.

The thing about Obaachan and Jiichan is that they are old-fashioned and demanding, and between helping Obaachan cook for the workers, covering for her when her back pain worsens, and worrying about her lonely little brother, Summer just barely has time to notice the attentions of their boss’s cute son. But notice she does, and what begins as a welcome distraction from the hard work soon turns into a mess of its own.

Having thoroughly disappointed her grandmother, Summer figures the bad luck must be finished—but then it gets worse. And when that happens, Summer has to figure out how to change it herself, even if it means further displeasing Obaachan. Because it might be the only way to save her family.

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