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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
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?"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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?
3) Windfall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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.
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Series
Big Nate volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Principal Nicohls wants Nate to be buddies with the new kid Breckenridge Puffington III, but that's no easy task when Breckenridge is a plant-doodling total fun-sponge.
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Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The latest illustrated novel from Lincoln Peirce is a laugh-out-loud must-read starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright. Nate's not having the best of luck ... in fact; he's not having ANY luck. But with a little boost thanks to Chad's lucky foot, suddenly good luck is everywhere Nate turns! Nate's in the zone! But how long will it last?
7) Touch blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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.
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Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 7
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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Series
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008, p2006
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a novel about four mothers, four daughters, and four families whose paths cross in 1949 in San Francisco as four Chinese women begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Dulcie's taste of magic: Dulcie the fairy, who likes to work hard as head baker for Queen Clarion, reluctantly takes a vacation.
Silvermist and the ladybug curse: After an "unlucky" white ladybug lands on Silvermist's head, the usually calm water-talent fairy is convinced that she is under a curse.