Review: Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard
Lucky Strikes
Louis Bayard
Henry Holt and Co Books for Young Readers
Available July 5, 2016
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Fourteen year-old Amelia’s mother dies, leaving her and two siblings alone in the world. Amelia’s determined to run the family gas station and keep her siblings together until she comes of age. When the town learns of her mother’s death, Amelia and her siblings face being split up in foster care, and Harvey Blevins, who owns all the other gas stations in the area, sees the chance to snatch that last station he covets. What she needs is a parent figure, and the moment the bum falls off a coal wagon, she hatches a … Continue reading
