Bud and Lucky.

i guess it's no accident that i read two books consecutively that are very similar in many aspects. and i didn't plan to read them in such sequence.





last month, i perused Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. It talks about a boy who escaped from his foster parents to look for his father. This month of May, I was able to find  The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron and finished it in two days, enjoying every page of it. The story circles on  a girl named Lucky, obviously, who is also an "orphan" in some ways because his father left her to his ex-girlfriend after Lucky's mother died.



anyway, i am just amused after finding so many similarities between the two books.



They are both for children. 

The lead characters are , i think, 10 years old.

They (main characters) both lammed/ escaped.

They (main characters) both have a survival bag/kit.

They (main characters) both found out that they are loved at the end of the story.



Both books won the Newbery Medal. Bud in 2001 and Lucky in 2007.

So, should I say that there's some formula behind every good story?