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Unlucky Charm Summer
By Alyssa Wilkinson
For fans of Katherine Rundell’s lyrical prose and Sheila Turnage’s southern charm, this historical mystery in a colorful circus is sure to delight.
By 1968, Duke Foster had been passed from one crummy foster family to another for eleven and a half years. Since the day she was dumped on the steps of Merciful Heart Children’s home in Brooklyn, she’s had almost nothing but bad luck. She’s a pest. A nuisance. Unlovable.
But an apartment fire leads Duke to discover that not only does she have parents (the wonderful kind who would never leave their baby on a doorstep and have somehow vanished into thin air), but that she also has a sister. A twin sister. One who was adopted by a family in low-country coastal Georgia, and shares Duke’s love of Nancy Drew novels.
As their paths cross, Duke and Daisy embark on a quest of their own to find their biological parents. At the heart of the search is an extravagant circus bursting with dark secrets. The performers and animals all join the growing list of mysteries to be solved. Add in a bully, a cat with very fuzzy ears, and a southern hurricane, and the twins have a summer brimming with adventure.
But just as quickly as they unravel the mystery of their past, someone else is trying to bury the remaining clues. Finding their biological parents and the truth about their family could prove to be the most dangerous adventure yet.
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May 2026
May 9 – Author Alyssa Wilkinson (Unlucky Charm Summer) is doing a Book Signing at Barnes & Noble in American Fork, Utah.
May 12 – Author Alyssa Wilkinson (Unlucky Charm Summer) will be at River Rock Elementary School in Lehi, UT.
May 13 – Author Alyssa Wilkinson (Unlucky Charm Summer) will make a TV Appearance on ABC4’s Good Things Utah in Salt Lake City, UT.
May 14-16 – CSB will be a vendor at the Michigan Homeschool Convention in Lansing, MI.
May 15 – Author Susan Reimer (The Gatekeeper’s Daughter: Cavern of Light and The Space Between Us) will be at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Iroquois Falls Public Library in Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada
May 19 – Author Elizabeth Raum (A Kidnapping In Kentucky 1776, and Boy With a Fife) will be doing a school visit at Oak Grove Lutheran School, Fargo, ND
May 28-29 – CSB will be a vendor and presenter at the LDS Home Educators Convention in Layton, UT.
May 28- 30 – CSB and author Catherine Witzaney (Wingless, Clanless) will be at the Alberta Home Educators Conference in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
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