Susan Patron
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Lucky's Hard Pan volume .1
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
3) Lucky breaks
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Lucky's Hard Pan volume 2
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Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
4) Burgoo stew
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In this variant of "Stone Soup, " old Billy Que tames a group of rough hungry boys.
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Lucky's Hard Pan volume 3
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafae, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
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Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West, in a California gold mining town.
Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie, California, in the 1880s, Angeline Reddy has seen it all — saloons, brawls, and a whole lot of desperation. When her father, Bodie's greatest lawyer, is declared murdered, Angie knows deep in her
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