Rubin, Adam
Summary: In Ancient Times, Gladys the dancing chicken goes on an epic adventure when she is mistaken for a magical chicken who grants wishes to those she encounters.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG RUBBarkley, Callie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Barkley 2015Farizan, Sara
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: When Rebecca helps her injured neighbor, Mr. Rossi, by caring for his pigeons, she discovers a strange black pigeon with an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and consults a fortune teller to learn if she is in danger, as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREGardner, Sally
Summary: Nine-year-old Emily Vole and her friends at Wings & Co. Fairy Detective Agency have their hands full with the sudden and mysterious death of local landowner Sir Walter Cross, devastating losses suffered by tailor Mr. Rollo, and the ruin of Pan Smith's wedding preparations the night before her big day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GARSimon, Coco
Summary: "Mia is having a terrible day! Everything is going wrong. She woke up late and couldn't make her hair look perfect or brush her teeth, she probably failed a pop quiz, and she broke her glasses! But when her mom's cousin Laura arrives from Puerto Rico, she gives Mia a bracelet with a lucky charm. All of a sudden, Mia's luck changes for the better. Mia's thrilled--she'll never have a bad day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J CCD 26Pizzoli, Greg
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIZMeyer, Marissa
Summary: Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw his comics, host regular D&D night with his friends, work at his parents’ vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he comes across a mysterious twenty-sided dice and finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, everything Jude has ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KADRumford, James
Summary: A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RUMMcDunn, Gillian
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDSmith, Jennifer E.
Summary: Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SMIRubin, Adam
Summary: In Ancient Times, Gladys the dancing chicken goes on an epic adventure when she is mistaken for a magical chicken who grants wishes to those she encounters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUBWillard, Nancy
Summary: James has five quarters and Danny has four. That means nine whole tries to get the little silver race car out of the gumball machine at Mr. Wright's store after school. Only very, very lucky people get both gumballs and the silver racer. It's a good thing that one of James's quarters is a Canadian quarter, which just so happens to be very, very lucky. But is it lucky enough to get him that...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WILBenjamin, Ali
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BENKinney, Jeff
Summary: 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?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2014
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Summary: 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?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2015McGuirk, Leslie.
Summary: Tucker starts off Saint Patrick's Day on the wrong paw. Nothing is going his way until he rolls in a bed of four-leaf clovers, which just happens to belong to a leprechaun! From catching a falling ice-cream scoop to getting a whole box of new toys, now Tucker is the luckiest dog around!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD MCGAgee, Jon.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion 2005
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Summary: When Bear's friend Mouse tells him that finding a four-leaf clover means one is lucky, the little bear searches for one, despite the discouraging words of other animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Summary: Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen is having a terrible day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BABCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC BABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Babysitter's Farina 2021Dewdney, Anna
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022