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62) Terrific
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
Author
Series
Lucy McGee volume 03
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
"While Lucy McGee tries to track down her missing ukulele, the members of the Songwriting Club must decide if it's worth competing against one another in a giveaway for free concert tickets."--
Author
Series
Good luck girls volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Old West, the Good Luck Girls reunite to undertake a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery.
Author
Publisher
Silicon Valley Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and actions. Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Good luck isn't just chance, it can be learned and leveraged, and The Serendipity Mindset explains how to use serendipity to make life better at work, at home-everywhere. Most of us think that the important decisions and events in our lives happen by chance, that they're out of our control. Often we think that successful people-and successful companies and organizations-are simply luckier than the rest of us. Good fortune-serendipity-just seems to...
68) Fortunately
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Good and bad luck accompany Ned from New York to Florida on his way to a surprise party.
69) One love
Author
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young girl enlists her friends, family, and community to transform their neighborhood for the better.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lila is trying to find her way in the world--to figure out her thing. Her talented sister, Parisa, and athletic best friend, Melanie, both seem to have found theirs... and Lila can't help feeling left behind. But just when she thinks she might have it in her school's new band program, the floor falls out from beneath Lila. The program may have its funding cut! Lila visits her local bank in an attempt to secure a loan for the band program. While she's...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
72) Fortune Falls
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build...
74) Tumble & Blue
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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.
77) My luck charm
Author
Publisher
Albert, Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's early morning--a perfect time to fish. A young girl sits with her fishing pole, the good luck charm her grandfather carved sitting on a rock beside her. But is catching fish for everyone's breakfast really what she wants to do?"--Back cover.
80) Uncertain luck
Author
Publisher
Real Nice Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils. Uncertain Luck is set in 1969 Japan during the Vietnam War.
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