Hurricane Luck

by Carl Carmer

"Hurricane coming!" Peter waits in the school house, fighting back fear. Hurricanes mean trouble, so he never dreams this one will bring strange good luck!

Genres: Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Carl Cramer is a former professor of English, columnist, and assistant editor of Vanity Fair and Theatre Arts Monthly. In more than thirty years of writing he has produced an impressive list of books, including history, historical novels, poetry and juveniles.

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

How do you make hurricanes boring? This snoozefest has a hurricane hitting Florida in the late 1940s, and yet the 11-year-old main character is more concerned about searching for sea shells. He's obsessed with earning money to help save his father's failing fishing career, pinning his hopes on a valuable shell or maybe that fishing contest with the big prize.

The only remarkable thing about this book is that comic book legend Jerry Robinson churned out the illustrations for it. Not a high-point in his career, for sure.

[Mary L. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting book about real life in an earlier time, how children helped out and went to school by a different means than we have today.