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"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
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English
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"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?"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Once upon a time, Millie, Nora, and Bea were best friends who loved slumber parties, exploring their Manhattan neighborhood, and making fortune tellers with their Magic Markers. Now, in the summer before seventh grade, they haven't spoken in over a year—thanks to a big fight, the pandemic shutting down their school, and each girl moving away for different reasons. The girls routinely check each other's social media, but none of them can muster...
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Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.
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Hand-me-down magic volume 1
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First edition.
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English
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"Del loves LOTS of things! The Curious Cousins Secondhand Shoppe. Ginormous family dinners. And of course, her best-friend-cousin, Alma. Alma loves her abuelita's tasty empanadas. Her old home by the lake. And soon, she'll love living in the same place as her best-friend-cousin, Del. Yet despite having Del by her side, Alma isn't quite sure she fits in with their family at 86 1/2 Twenty-Third Avenue. It's a new life and it's all so different. When...
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Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 2
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
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First edition.
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English
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On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper worries that too much good luck can sometimes equal bad luck.
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Daisy Dreamer volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
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English
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"Every kid in the world has had a Bad Luck Day, but Daisy Dreamer's might be the unluckiest Bad Luck Day ever"-- Provided by publisher.
11) Fortune Falls
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Scholastic Press
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2016.
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First edition.
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English
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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.
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Altea
Pub. Date
2019.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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¡Hoy es el día de suerte de Llama Llama! Gana en su juego favorito, mete una canasta de espaldas, ¡y ni siquiera se le quema el pan tostado! Llama está convencido de que todo es gracias a su piyama roja, pero ¿qué hara cuando se le acabe la suerte?
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A boy's wish for a goldfish lands him in monkey business. A wild game of golf pushes everyone's luck. And Uncle Sam teaches a brother and sister about life, liberty, and the pursuit of cookies. Join in the fun as the [T]eeny [W]eenies get into all kinds of hilarious trouble!
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Charlesbridge
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Español
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En este divertido libro ilustrado sobre las supersticiones, ¿pod̀r Miguel aprender a crear su propia suerte y librarse de la mala suerte antes de que sea demasiado tarde?
Miguel's grandmother warns him that opening an umbrella inside the house will bring bad luck that will follow him everywhere.
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Harper
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©2014.
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First Edition.
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English
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Seeing a four-leaf clover at a show-and-share, Fancy Nancy becomes superstitious and goes overboard trying to keep track of everything that is lucky and unlucky before deciding to settle on what she truly believes.
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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A riff on The Hockey Sweater for girls, an intergenerational story of the shared love of the sport, and a celebration of the storied Number 9 in hockey. 9-year-old Gabe (Gabriella) Murray lives and breathes hockey. She's the youngest player on her new team, she has a nifty move that her teammates call "the Gabe," and she shares a lucky number with her hero, Hayley Wickenheiser: number 22. But when her coach hands out the team jerseys, Gabe is stuck...
17) Gum
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"James and Danny are on a mission: to get the little silver race car out of the gumball machine at Mr. Wright's store. Only very, very, lucky people get both gumballs and the silver racer. It's a good thing one of James's quarters is a Canadian quarter, which just so happens to be very, very lucky. But is it lucky enough to get him that silver racer?" -- Jacket.
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