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1) Windfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Alice doesnt believe in luck-at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, shes been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday-just when it seems they might be on the brink of something-she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. At first, it seems like a dream come true, especially since the two of them are no strangers...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Meet Judy Moody, the queen of moods! Judy Moody can't stop winning - at bowling, at spelling, at everything! Until her lucky penny has an unlucky accident, that is. Suddenly it's good-bye, Lucky Duck! Hello, C-A-L-A-M-I-T-Y! Has Judy's luck gone down the toilet for good?
5) Lucky strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After winning the lead role in a play, acing a spelling test, and finding money, second-grader Ellie wonders if the Critter Club animal shelter's newest animal--a little pink pig--is bringing her good luck.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
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?
8) Fiona's luck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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?"--
12) Lucky in love
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Maddie is a hard working high school senior, waiting to hear from the colleges she applied to, when on a whim she buys a lottery ticket and wins; suddenly she is the center of everybody's attention, including her struggling family, and not necessarily in a good way--only Seth Nguyen, her charming coworker at the local zoo, seems oblivious to her luck, and Maddie is not sure whether telling him will change their developing relationship.
13) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
14) Fortune Falls
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Maguire is bad luck. No matter how many charms she buys or good luck rituals she performs, horrible things happen. She spends a lot of time in her room to avoid causing damage. But then she meets Jordy, a talented, lucky, aspiring tennis star. He's convinced he can help Maguire break her unlucky streak; she is convinced the best thing she can do for Jordy is stay away. But it turns out that staying away is harder than she thought. --
16) Just my luck!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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
Series
Classroom 13 volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
19) Terrific
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Terrific," says Eugene when he wins an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. "I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." But Eugene's luck is much worse than that. His ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island.
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Brothers Mac and Mac are SO lucky that everything goes well - even when their frenemy Meatball plays tricks on them"--