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A review by listen_learn
Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern
5.0
I really liked this book on so many levels:
1) Responsible adults whom the main character has healthy relationships with are all over the place (including his happily married parents and not-so-perfect teacher)
2) Kids with disabilities (legal blindness and autism) are given starring supportive roles (is that an oxymoronic expression? if it is, oh well, that's how I felt about it)
3) Benny, the main character, is kind and sensitive for a fourth grade boy, but no so kind or so sensitive as to be unrealistic.
4)The theme of trying to help others, even, or especially, when you feel like you have a problem. So many of our problems would not shrink if we were more other-focused, but they would be put in perspective and context of the big, wide, beautiful and painful world.
Recommend for those who liked [b:Extraordinary|23130145|Extraordinary|Miriam Spitzer Franklin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414559681l/23130145._SX50_.jpg|42677919], [b:Out of My Mind|6609765|Out of My Mind|Sharon M. Draper|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347602096l/6609765._SX50_.jpg|6803732], or[b:All the Answers|22313641|All the Answers|Kate Messner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1401111383l/22313641._SY75_.jpg|41705964] - particularly if you liked those, but want a book with a boy as the MC.
1) Responsible adults whom the main character has healthy relationships with are all over the place (including his happily married parents and not-so-perfect teacher)
2) Kids with disabilities (legal blindness and autism) are given starring supportive roles (is that an oxymoronic expression? if it is, oh well, that's how I felt about it)
3) Benny, the main character, is kind and sensitive for a fourth grade boy, but no so kind or so sensitive as to be unrealistic.
4)The theme of trying to help others, even, or especially, when you feel like you have a problem. So many of our problems would not shrink if we were more other-focused, but they would be put in perspective and context of the big, wide, beautiful and painful world.
Recommend for those who liked [b:Extraordinary|23130145|Extraordinary|Miriam Spitzer Franklin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414559681l/23130145._SX50_.jpg|42677919], [b:Out of My Mind|6609765|Out of My Mind|Sharon M. Draper|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347602096l/6609765._SX50_.jpg|6803732], or[b:All the Answers|22313641|All the Answers|Kate Messner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1401111383l/22313641._SY75_.jpg|41705964] - particularly if you liked those, but want a book with a boy as the MC.