![]() ![]() ![]() She draws her readers into the story with that great opening sentence (above) that begs the reader to want to know more. Ĭynthia Lord delivers a magical and richly textured story about an unlikely friendship between Lily, a French Canadian, and Salma, a Hispanic-American. Through their enduring friendship, both girls find their own inner strengths. When Salma decides to enter the Blueberry Queen Pageant, something a bilingual Hispanic migrant girl has not done before, Lily becomes aware of the town’s biases. Salma helps Lily paint wooden bee hives to raise money for an operation to save Lucky’s eyesight. ![]() The girls bond over their love of dogs and painting. Lily and her grandfather thank Salma at the migrant camp with a pork dinner pie. Lucky is Lily’s last link to her mother who left them with her grandparents when she was two. ![]() Salma, a migrant girl, grabs her peanut butter sandwich and lures Lucky before he runs onto a highway. Synopsis: Two girls from different cultures meet when Lily’s blind dog, Lucky, takes off across the blueberry barrens of Maine. Opening: The only reason I ever spoke to Salma Santiago was because my dog ate her lunch. Themes: Blueberries, Migrant workers, Hispanic-American children, Prejudice, Blind dog, Friendship, Multicultural ![]()
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