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Livvie isn’t superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn’t worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it away–until she’s humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs,
and gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Peter Finch’s house. Peter’s dad has crooked teeth, a plastic wonderland in his front yard, and some kind of secret up in his study. There is no way Livvie wants Phil Finch to date her mom.
But it’s hard work keeping their families apart–especially when Livvie is assigned to work on the sixth-grade snow maze project with Peter. Clearly, Joyce was right: breaking the chain was a huge mistake. And the only way to set things straight is to find out who sent the letter in the first place. . . .
Rich in humor and suspense, Julie Schumacher’s absorbing novel is about friendship, choices, and the kind of luck that really matters.
Synopsis
Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, so she's not worried about throwing away a chain letter--until she's humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Peter Finch's house. Clearly, breaking the chain was a huge mistake.
Julie Schumacher on PowellsBooks.Blog
Soon after I graduated from college, I was struck by the idea that other people (professors) would no longer be in charge of selecting the books that invariably waited in a stack by my bed. My undergraduate degree was in Spanish rather than English, so I’d spent the previous four years immersed in the fiction of García Márquez and Borges and Cortázar and Valenzuela...
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