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A lottery win changes everything...

I’m 14 when Dad wins the lottery. There’s absolutely nothing exciting going on in the world around me. Woodstock and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King—that’s all in the past. The biggest news is the country’s about to turn 200 next year, big deal. Yeah, that’s right: 1975.

My mom can be the happiest person in the world one minute and the saddest the next. I’m starting to think she’s crazy as a betsy bug, and to worry I might end up that way too.

My dad is a complicated guy. He works too hard, you know?

Mainly I’ve just got my Gram and she’s really old, so clearly she doesn’t have a clue what it’s like to be 14.

Dad never plays the lottery, which he sees as a total waste of money. This guy Peewee does though, and one day he buys a ticket as a gift to Dad.

And what do you suppose?

For a while I think this lottery thing is going to be my salvation. I’m sick of being too tall, too bony, too uncoordinated, too ugly. And for a while it looks like I could be right about the lottery.

This is my story, but it’s theirs too. All of us. Including Peewee, who figures we owe him big time.

But not everyone feels that way. Not by a long shot.

Buy The Ticket to enter the world of these lottery winners.

A story that aches to be read—characters as real as you or me, with doubts, joys, and dreams that seem unreachable—Ron Kidd, Author, Dreambender

This book is for anyone who has grown up socially awkward. Or with big dreams ... bigger than some say you have a right to. –Eva Marie Everson, Chasing Sunsets


Compelling…the story offers up riveting drama…4 stars. –RT Book Reviews