luck

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.

"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?"--.

After being dumped by his best friend and having a hard time finding new friends in middle school, Greg decides to change his luck and turn all his decisions over to chance.

After a string of incredibly good luck, Molly decides that she has developed magical powers, but when she finds out that her pen pal Olive has had an equally surprising run of minor disasters Molly starts to wonder if her magical good luck is somehow responsible for her friend's problems.

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.

In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.

"Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are having the berry best time preparing for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade and festival. Everyone except Lemon Meringue, that is! Everything Lemon does seems to go wrong. When Strawberry sees how upset her friend is, she come up with a fruitastic plan to turn Lemon's day around"--Back cover.

Good Luck Bear and his friends chase a four-leaf clover over a rainbow.

After neglecting to follow the rules of a chain letter from Ireland said to grant luck, eighth grader Meghan McGlinchey begins to experience a lot of bad luck. She hopes her upcoming family trip to Ireland will be an opportunity to find the letter's original sender and reverse her bad fortune.

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.