Paperback,272 pages
Publisher: Puffin
Pub.date: Feb 2008
Source: Library
ISBN-10: 014132211X
ISBN-13: 978-0141322117
Mouse Kannaghan is a boy who is trying to stay out of trouble, after he is suspended from school because he has colored the school's walls with graffity.
One day when he walks out the office of his social worker who tries to makes his life a little better, he is followed by a dog. And even here trouble follows Mouse because the dogs get hit by a bike a few minutes later. The girl on the bike, Cat feels awfull that she has hit a dog and they bring the dog to the vet, and Mouse decides he wants to keep the dog, who obviously doesn't have an owner. Mouse and Cat become friends, and Cat wants only want thing: to cheer up Mouse's life a bit and to get out of her own boring life. Opposite attracts, and this is certain the case for Mouse and cat Mouse lives in a bad neighborhoud, which is ruled by drug dealers and other shady people. Cat goes to a posh school, lives in a whealthy neighbourhood, but she seems to has a few secrets to..
Mouse's mom works at the Phoenix, a social center who helps drug addicts to get their life back on track. It seems the dog, who Mouse has called Lucky, has an owner, a notorious and violent drug addict, who discovers that Mouse has Lucky now under his wing and threats Mouse and his mother. Together with Cat, Mouse tries to keep Lucky, and this is not without danger..
I truly did't know what to expect, I found this book in the library and gave it a try. It is a few things in one: a light but edgy, fun but tragic, and just a great teen story about two teens who it seems have nothing in common and live in different worlds in London, but become the best friends because of a dog they found. You sometimes feel really sorry for Mouse because he is trying so hard but gets in trouble everytime, under his graffity guy looks he is just a good guy. Recommended for young teens. Lucky Star gets four stars!
