lottery winners

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.

"Jamie is a sixteen-year-old math whiz. Summerlee, his older sister, is in the grip of a wild phase. Tensions at home run high. When Summerlee wins a 7.5-million-dollar lottery, she cuts all ties with her family. But money can cause trouble--big trouble. And when Jamie's younger sister Phoebe is kidnapped for a ransom, the family faces a crisis almost too painful to bear. Jamie thinks he can use game theory--the strategy of predicting an opponent's actions--to get Phoebe back. But can he outfox the kidnapper? Or is he putting his own and his sister's life at risk?"--Back cover.

Maddie doesn't believe in luck. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night, on a whim, she buys a lottery ticket. And then, to her astonishment. ..

A 12-year-old orphan living rough on the streets of London with his dog races to cash in a winning lottery ticket while outmaneuvering dangerous thugs who would steal it from him.

After three years of marriage to two-timing cad Kent Bliss, Rosie realizes that her estranged friend Vickie was right about Kent and kicks him out. After beginning a diet and exercise regime, Rosie wins $302 million in a lottery and finds Kent ready to claim a share of her money and herself more in need of her friends than ever.

In Branscombe, N.H., novelist Nora Regan Reilly and her PI daughter, Regan Reilly, and their close friends Alvirah and Will Meehan, track down a missing employee of Conklin's Market who is connected with a $160 million lottery and the winnings.

Ryan, living with his mom in a motel room, thinks things are really going to change when his mom wins over a million dollars in the lottery, but his mom's trusting nature and inability to say no nearly leads to disaster.

When Barbaraannette Quinn wins the lottery, she offers to pay one million dollars to anyone who can find her missing husband Bobby, and soon every loser and schemer in town is trying to find a way to take her money, including Bobby and his new girlfriend.

Lia believes that her nagging mother and annoying sister make her life difficult, but when she wins the lottery, she finds that the money creates more problems than it fixes.

When elderly Emma Carter is robbed of her winning lottery ticket, the crook who stole her money is suddenly overwhelmed with people who want their share of it.