After Alana's father dies, she tries desperately to control her unhappy life with "lucky" finger snaps. The snaps don't seem to be helping though, because her mother can't pay the rent, and they are evicted from their motel.
Just when everything is at its lowest low point, Alana rubs the Wizard's lamp in a national contest and wins a solid gold charm bracelet.
Suddenly, she has grandparents, a house, new friends, and amazing success in everything she tries. Is it all due to her luck?
Alana's new friend, Jacob, doesn't think so, and the bracelet's mysterious little charms support his opinion. They suggest instead, that she is using her more dependable powers of people, a home, health, hard work, and positive attitude.
This illustrated chapter book encourages middle-grade readers to examine the real value of some personal support systems we may be using to deal with life's difficulties.
Lucky Alana is the fourth novel of the "Agent C" series. The "C" stands for the word "catalyst", meaning something that causes a drastic change.
"Agent C" is a little man who makes cameo appearances in the books of this series. In Lucky Alana, he takes the role of the Wizard at the mall who awards Alana with her charm bracelet.
Lynda has published four other illustrated paperbacks for middle grade readers. They are:
Margaret's Christmas Cookies by Lynda, a short holiday chapter book
Tiny Others, Agent C Series by Lynda, for middle-grade readers
Pomegranate, Agent C Series by Lynda, for middle-grade readers
White rabbit Time, Agent C Series by Lynda, for middle-grade readers
They may be ordered on Amazon or at your favorite bookstore.
About the Author: As a child growing up in cozy little town on the Missouri River of South Dakota, Lynda explored her early passion for writing and art by creating stories and poems. She even attempted one novel on theme paper and kept it carefully hidden on a high dusty shelf in her bedroom.
A resident of Arizona for many years now, she lives with her husband and their black and white cat, Topper. Two grown-up daughters have homes and families of their own in other places.
With two degrees in Elementary Ed, Lynda loved teaching in grades 1,2,3,4, and 5 of public schools for twenty-one years. Even after retirement she continued to work with students in a reading intervention program.
...And throughout her adult life she wrote, painted, and revised her stories. At last, she began to realize that she owned a desk full of ideas, problems, and children who lived only in her imagination.
Finally, Lynda decided that books without readers were a waste of her joy and inspiration!
She has now published eight of her stories as eBooks for Kindle and other electronic devices. Five of these are also available in paperback.
Lynda plans to publish the other three in the near future.
