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Original Title:	The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
ISBN:	0399250905 (ISBN13: 9780399250903)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Emma, Harry "Dit" Sims
Literary Awards:	Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2010)

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

Kristin Levine

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 2901 Users | 525 Reviews

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Title	:	The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Author	:	Kristin Levine
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	January 22nd 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers (first published January 9th 2009)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction

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The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when the town barber, who is black, is put on trial for a terrible crime. Together Dit and Emma come up with a daring plan to save him from the unthinkable. Set in 1917 and inspired by the author's true family history, this is the poignant story of a remarkable friendship and the perils of small-town justice.

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I have always liked morality tales and fables. By manipulating reality, ultimate truths are revealed. The key aspect of reading such works of fiction, however, is that I suspend any expectation that they should be real, much as I would wish that they were real. Carpets really don't fly, foxes don't speak wisdom in a human voice and villains don't always get destroyed by the forces of good.It is in this spirit that I review this book. Not marketed as a fairytale or fable, but in the spirit of a

This book was amazing I like it a lot and I think girls and boys my age, older or maybe a year or two younger would like this book. this book The best bad luck I've ever had is about a boy named Dit and a girl named Emma and she had darker skin. This book was written with the setting being Moundville Alabama in 1917. The people in Moundville were surprised by there color of the new post-master families skin while Dit focused more on that Emma was a girl and he was told there was gonna be a boy

What a fabulous book! I was hooked by the first paragraph. Dit's voice is so strong in this book, I can't help completely loving him and loving watching his bit of coming of age. I loved seeing Emma through his eyes, as well as everything else. I loved the atmosphere I felt from the book. Amazing writing. Beautiful story complete with humor, honesty, innocence, knowledge, right v. wrong, tragedy, fear, courage, and much more. Knowing this is based on the author's grandfather's experiences, and I

Slow to start but the characters were so endearing it became a page turner.

Things seem to go wrong for Dit too often during 1917. And, what's worse, he's doing things to get himself in trouble. His growing friendship with the new kid in town takes him on many adventures and helps him realize the value in honesty and true justice during a time of harsh racism and inequality.

In Moundville, AL in 1917, Harry Otis (Dit) Sims is one of 10 children in his family. He's frustrated that he can't seem to get his parents' attention, and he especially wants his father's approval. Dit is good at baseball and hunting with the "flip it" slingshot he made to shoot rocks. His best friend, Chip, is the mayor's son. When the town gets a new postmaster, Dit has high hopes that he'll have a son, but instead when the Walkers arrive by train from Boston, their only child is a girl about

Set in Moundville, Alabama in 1917 this charming juvenile novel was based on the author's grandfather's handwritten memoir. Folks who didn't grow up in the South may not "buy" that children of different races played together and often became friends, and Levine's story captures perfectly the truth that among White Southerners there was (and still is) a vast difference between those who were (and are) unencumbered by prejudice, those who hold their prejudice inside and allow graciousness and good