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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else : Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--
2) Holes
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
"Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no...
Author
Series
Midnight library volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Louise learns that too many trips to the candy store can be bad for her health; Greg and Sam press their luck with a roll of devious dice; and Rory and April go for a ride in their family's dazzling new car.
5) Miss fortune
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a skeptical Zoe has her fortune told at a carnival, and the fortune-teller gives her a special necklace, she starts a run of bad luck that leads her to believe she may be under a curse and that something terrible may be about to happen.
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
KC and Marshall investigate the theft of a precious emerald, brought by representatives of the Chinese government to bring luck to two baby tigers born at the National Zoo.
Author
Series
Dinosaur Cove volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Tom and Jamie can't believe their luck when they find a secret entrance to a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs! The first dinosaur they meet is a friendly wannanosaurus. It eats the fruit from super-stinky ginkgo trees. But soon, Tom and Jamie meet a much less friendly dino: a Tyrannosaurus Rex that would like to eat them!"--P. [4] of cover.
9) The dead end
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too--a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own--and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared...
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many years ago a slighted fairy placed a curse on a beautiful young princess-a curse that caused her and all her female descendants to turn into mean, ugly witches if they ever touched a flower after turning sixteen. Now, Princess Emma, who is about to turn sixteen herself, is determined to break the spell once and for all. Emma travels back in time to the day the curse was placed on her ancestor in the hope of preventing the curse from being cast....
Author
Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 13
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon superstitious headmaster Mordred's orders, the returning students and new lasses of Dragon Slayers' Academy deck themselves in lucky charms on Friday the thirteenth, but luck may not help when a wicked dragon arrives seeking revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew investigates the disappearance of Ned's digital camera and laptop that had been used on a fishing trip with his father. Something fishy is going on in River heights - and this time I really mean it. First a burglar breaks into the Nickersons' home and snatches Ned's digital camera, and then a few days later his laptop is stolen. Ned is super bummed - There's not replacing the hilarious photos he snapped of his dad falling out of the boat...
13) Fractured path
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Can dreams come true when you're living with a family curse? 1965--San Francisco, California The 1960s are bursting with music and movement and love in San Francisco, perfect for a budding artist like Blake. Unfortunately, the art world is not welcoming to people of her gender or her multi-racial heritage, making it tough to land an internship that could put her on the map. That, plus the fact that Blake's family has been notoriously riddled with...
Author
Series
Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 5
Publisher
The Kane Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of ace detective Dash Marlowe, sleuths-in-training Mio and Jazz investigate a so-called jinx at the local Fourth of July fair.
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