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1) Lucky socks
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.
3) The Banshee
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
5) Lucky T
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Carrie gets upset when her mother gives her lucky T-shirt to Help India, now she's only having bad luck, so she decides to travel halfway around the world to get her lucky shirt back.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
8) Lucky Lazlo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lazlo chooses a red rose and ventures to the theater to present it to the performer he cherishes, only to have the rose grabbed by a mischievous cat who races around backstage, past actors dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.
10) Lucky Luis
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Luis is convinced that he will not perform well on the baseball field without following his unique pre-game ritual.
11) Fortune Falls
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die; Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working on a story about the Philippines' war on drugs, and she...
15) The chain letter
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Livvie decides to throw a chain letter in the trash, bad luck ensues.
Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn't worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it away until she's humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Peter Finch's house. Peter's dad has crooked teeth, a plastic wonderland in his front...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Freya June Sun is obsessed with Chinese superstition and signs she believes are from her late father, but an unexpected partnership with a classmate leads her on a path of self-discovery as she learns to rely on herself for luck.
"Seventh-grader Freya June Sun has always believed in the Chinese superstitions spoon-fed to her since birth. Ever since her dad’s death a year ago, she’s become obsessed with them, and believes that her...
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