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A World of luck

1991
Explores the facts surrounding games of chance, luck, coincidence, and probabilities.

Give me a break

2004
When Madison goes on a ski vacation to Big Mountain, she keeps running into bad luck, and will try anything to help save her school break.

The very bad day

2004
A young girl is having a very bad day, from falling out of bed in the morning to not being able to find her friends, but when she returns home from a rainy trip to the park her friends are waiting for her.

Dumb luck

2011
Seventeen-year-old Brandon, having survived a fall from a tree, decides to take his luck and buy a lottery ticket, but, after he wins three million dollars and the money begins causing stress in his life and problems with his friends and family, he begins to question if he is lucky at all.

Never race a runaway pumpkin

2010
Roscoe is determined to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin in order to win books for his school library and candy for himself, but is overwhelmed by superstitions, especially about a certain black kitten.

Very lucky ponies

2008
Serendipty finds a four-leaf clover which brings good luck to her and all her pony friends. Includes rebus words.

The Bad Luck Chair

2007
Addison Darby walks into her classroom on morning to find that the school's bad luck chair is in her spot, and Katie convinces her that she is the only one who can break the curse.

The lucky Easter hat

2006
Maya finds a special hat the day before Easter and hopes that it will bring her luck at the community center Easter egg hunt.

Shlemazel and the remarkable spoon of Pohost

2006
A retelling of an Eastern European tale in which Shlemazel, the laziest man in town, is tricked into believing that the lucky spoon given to him by a neighbor will bring him fortune and fame, if it is used in the right way.

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