The Higher Power of Lucky & Lucky Breaks: Susan Patron
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: July 14, 2009
I recently received a copy of Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron, and there was no way I was going to read it before reading its predecessor — one of the most discussed books of recent time — The Higher Power of Lucky.
I’m just going to go ahead and acknowledge the elephant in the room, “scrotum.” There, I said it, “scrotum, scrotum, scrotum.” If you’re already shocked, then you probably missed the controversial event of The Higher Power of Lucky being banned from schools and libraries for its use of the word scrotum — even though it had been awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal — you may not want to read any further. But first consider these words from The New York Times article, With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar:
Pat Scales, a former chairwoman of the Newbery Award committee, said
that declining to stock the book in libraries was nothing short of
censorship.
