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Don't touch my hat!

2007
A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

Ella sets sail

2008
When Ella the elephant goes to the carnival and loses her lucky hat in a storm, she learns a valuable lesson about the real meaning of luck.

Strike-out scare

2005
Nancy Drew must try to find Bess's missing baseball bat which Bess believes brings her good luck as a hitter.

Seabird

1948
An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.

Silvermist and the ladybug curse

2008
After an "unlucky" white ladybug lands on Silvermist's head, the usually calm water-talent fairy is convinced that she is under a curse.

As easy as falling off the face of the earth

2010
A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

The five fakirs of Faizabad

2010
John and Philippa Gaunt, expecting their lives to return to normal after their mother gives up her djinn powers, are drawn into a desperate quest to find five fakirs who hold the keys to the world's fate after its luck tips wildly out of balance.

The silver penny

2005
A rare silver coin and a mysterious red-haired boy seem entangled in eleven-year-old Jacob "Deb" Corey's fate when he is laid up with a badly broken leg on his family's farm in the mid-1800s, just after performing a hex to cure his wanderlust.

I rode a horse of milk white jade

1999
In the early nineteenth century China, a grandmother tells her grandaughter a story of luck.

Friday the 13th

1981
Unlucky Harold, for whom every day is Friday the 13th, finally has a change of fortune.

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