Bad Luck Girl

Bad Luck Girl
Author: Sarah Zettel
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375869409

Fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners will love the blend of fantasy and jazz-hot Chicago in this stylish series. After rescuing her parents from the Seelie king at Hearst Castle, Callie is caught up in the war between the fairies of the Midnight Throne and the Sunlit Kingdoms. By accident, she discovers that fairies aren't the only magical creatures in the world. There's also Halfers, misfits that are half fairy and half other--laced with strange magic and big-city attitude. As the war heats up, Callie's world falls apart. And even though she's the child of prophecy, she doubts she can save the Halfers, her people, her family, and Jack, let alone herself. The fairies all say Callie is the Bad Luck Girl, and she's starting to believe them. A strong example of diversity in YA, the American Fairy Trilogy introduces Callie LeRoux, a half-black teen who stars in this evocative story full of American history and fairy tales. Supports the Common Core State Standards. Praise for Bad Luck Girl "All the powers that be want to use Callie's magic to win the war for their side, and nobody cares what happens to Callie, Jack or the Halfers, raising the stakes to frighteningly high levels. Callie and Zettel bring this stellar trilogy to a satisfyingly sentimental conclusion." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review " Zettel's] strong characterizations, historical detail, and carefully constructed fantastic elements create a high-energy literary fusion that fans will devour." --SLJ

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Author: Kristin Levine
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-01-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1440699402

The last thing Harry ?Dit? Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn?t play baseball or fi sh too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when the town barber, who is black, is put on trial for a terrible crime. Together Dit and Emma come up with a daring plan to save him from the unthinkable. Set in 1917 and inspired by the author?s true family history, this is the poignant story of a remarkable friendship and the perils of small-town justice

The Good Luck Girls

The Good Luck Girls
Author: Charlotte Nicole Davis
Publisher: Tor Teen
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250299713

An Indie Next Pick A Silver 2019 Nautilus Book Award Winner A Kirkus Reviews 2019 Best of the Year Selection Westworld meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this stunning fantasy adventure from debut author Charlotte Nicole Davis. Aster, the protector Violet, the favorite Tansy, the medic Mallow, the fighter Clementine, the catalyst THE GOOD LUCK GIRLS The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls—they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a “welcome house” as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta’s most vicious and powerful forces, both human and inhuman, their only hope lies in a bedtime story passed from one Good Luck Girl to another, a story that only the youngest or most desperate would ever believe. It’s going to take more than luck for them all to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Good Luck Girl

The Good Luck Girl
Author: Kerry Reichs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Bildungsromans
ISBN: 9781409102618

Maeve Connolly is tired of being labelled as irresponsible. Yes, she may split her time evenly between Facebook and America's Next Top Model but Maeve isn't a typical post-college slacker. Determined to change her life and make her own luck, Maeve impulsively decides on a grand adventure - driving cross country to LA. But en route, Maeve's car breaks down and she is stranded in Unknown, Arizona. It is here, alone and in the middle of nowhere, that Maeve finally faces up to the reality of her past. What Maeve has denied acknowledging, even to herself, is that she isn't running from bad luck, but from something much more complicated...

Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery

Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN:

Ever since Mary Anne threw away the chain letter she got in the mail bad things have been happening. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried about what spooky thing will happen next? When she receives a note with a bad luck charm in it saying wear or ELSE, she has to wear it, but who sent it? The BSC might never see an end to their bad luck if they don't solve this mystery soon! In graphic novel format.

The Bad Luck Bride

The Bad Luck Bride
Author: Janna MacGregor
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250116120

For fans of Eloisa James and Sabrina Jeffries, comes a sparkling Regency romance debut.

Judy Moody and the Bad Luck Charm

Judy Moody and the Bad Luck Charm
Author: Megan McDonald
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536200808

Includes readers' extras and a page of stickers.

Bad Luck Chuck

Bad Luck Chuck
Author: Lela Gwenn
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506713025

Cursed at birth with extraordinary bad luck, Charlene "Chuck" Manchester provides disaster where someone else can profit. Got a failing business? For a price Chuck will make sure you collect on that insurance policy, without ever getting your own hands dirty. But when a crime boss hires her to take out an evangelical cult, things don't go as planned. Now the mob boss, the cult leader, and a dogged insurance-fraud investigator all come for her at once. Everything that could go wrong does--and only about half of it by accident. A dangerous liaison with the crime boss's daughter ups the stakes fatally for Chuck, as the curse she's run from her whole life finally catches up to her. Lela Gwenn brings a fresh voice to comics with this twisty noir, full of outlaws who aren't so much wise guys as they are smart asses. Matthew Dow Smith, best known for a long run on IDW's X-Files, brings that weird detective vibe, placing the oddball villains and anti-heroes in a grounded world taking us from the bad side of town, through shadowy office spaces reminiscent of Sam Spade, to a fiery revival tent and the splendor of a Tibetan abbey. Chuck will need more than a rabbit's foot to get through this. Collects Bad Luck Chuck #1-4.

Dust Girl

Dust Girl
Author: Sarah Zettel
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 037598318X

Fans of Libba Bray’s The Diviners will love the blend of fantasy and twentieth-century history in this stylish series. Callie LeRoux is choking on dust. Just as the biggest dust storm in history sweeps through the Midwest, Callie discovers her mother's long-kept secret. Callie’s not just mixed race—she's half fairy, too. Now, Callie's fairy kin have found where she's been hidden, and they're coming for her. While dust engulfs the prairie, magic unfolds around Callie. Buildings flicker from lush to shabby, and people aren’t what they seem. The only person Callie can trust may be Jack, the charming ex-bootlegger she helped break out of jail. From the despair of the Dust Bowl to the hot jazz of Kansas City and the dangerous beauties of the fairy realm, Sarah Zettel creates a world rooted equally in American history and in magic, where two fairy clans war over a girl marked by prophecy. A strong example of diversity in YA, the American Fairy Trilogy introduces Callie LeRoux, a half-black teen who stars in this evocative story full of American history and fairy tales. Supports the Common Core State Standards.