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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seeing a four-leaf clover at a show-and-share, Fancy Nancy becomes superstitious and goes overboard trying to keep track of everything that is lucky and unlucky before deciding to settle on what she truly believes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality-show inspired competition to determine who will replace the school's legendary class clown, Paulie Fink.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In order for Tumble Wilson and Blue Montgomery to fix their ancestors' mistakes and banish the bad luck that has followed them around for all of their lives, they must face Munch, the mysterious golden alligator who cast the curse centuries ago.
8) Touch blue
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
10) Gumdrop Angel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents three novella-length tales of horror set in the world of Five nights at Freddy's.
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night ... A string of bad luck you can't seem to shake ... for Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, it's an all too familiar feeling. Repulsed by her spoiled stepsister's lavish birthday party, Angel exacts a hasty...
11) Windfall
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brandon's junior high school basketball team is struggling to make the playoffs, and Brandon is starting to feel that his bad luck is dragging them down--and when their bus breaks down on the way to the big game, Brandon has to turn luck into opportunity.
13) Lucky duck
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Susan the duck keeps feeling unlucky, so when a wolf shows up with gifts she has won it seems like her luck is turning around, but soon she realizes the wolf's intentions may not be as helpful as she imagined.
14) Ella sets sail
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ella the elephant goes to the carnival and loses her lucky hat in a storm, she learns a valuable lesson about the real meaning of luck.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (91 pages) : illustrations, map.
Language
English
Description
Molly's having a string of good luck, while nothing is going right for her cross-country pen pal, Olive. After some investigation, Molly's convinced magical powers are at work, and she sets out to restore balance in the friendship. A variety of types of correspondence and points-of-view that alternate from chapter to chapter give readers a well-rounded look at the main characters and the joys and challenges of a long-distance friendship.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
Author
Series
From the files of Madison Finn volume 18
Publisher
Volo/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Madison goes on a ski vacation to Big Mountain, she keeps running into bad luck. Can her vacation be salvaged?
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
According to eleven-year-old Annie, luck is never on her side causing her to be somewhat of a loner, but after some prodding by her social studies teacher Annie relunctantly tries her fortune at making friends.