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1) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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
Roscoe Riley rules volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Roscoe is determined to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin in order to win books for his school library and candy for himself, but is overwhelmed by superstitions, especially about a certain black kitten.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 11
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Look out, world--Llama Llama is a TV star! The beloved character, made famous by Anna Dewdney's best-selling picture books, is now the star of his own Netflix original series.
8) Puppy luck
Author
Series
Good dog volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a bout of bad luck, Bo and his friends search for a way to bring back his puppy luck.
Author
Series
Button family saga volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Emma Macintyre is mourning the loss of her mother's best friend and struggling to keep her own friend from drifting away when she receives a mysterious letter telling her to list ten lucky things she would like to have happen.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
copyright 2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
Elixir fixers volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When local chocolate maker Ms. Kozlow comes to the Juicy Gizzard potion shop asking for luck, Sasha needs to find out why. Does Ms. Kozlow need luck because she has a matchmaking appointment with Granny Yenta this afternoon? Can Sasha and her new friend Puck make it Ms. Kozlow's lucky day?"--
Author
Series
Classroom 13 volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky"--
Author
Series
Nate el grande volume 6
Publisher
RBA Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"La suerte de Nate va de mal en peor... hasta que de repente ¡todo cambia y empieza a mejorar! Pero ¿por qué? Y ¿quánto durará la buena racha?"--Page 4, cover.
18) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since entering fourth grade, Benny Barrows worries that he will never be good at anything, that he is responsible for an accident that sent his father to the hospital, and that his attempts at winning a school contest will never be noticed.
Author
Publisher
Altea
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
¡Hoy es el día de suerte de Llama Llama! Gana en su juego favorito, mete una canasta de espaldas, ¡y ni siquiera se le quema el pan tostado! Llama está convencido de que todo es gracias a su piyama roja, pero ¿qué hara cuando se le acabe la suerte?
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A four-leaf clover! A ladybug! A rainbow! It's a lucky day! Uni and the little girl want to see if there's really gold at the end of the rainbow. But then it rains. And they get lost in the forest! Can Uni, the little girl, and their friends still have a lucky day?"--Back cover.
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