luck

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luck

It could have been worse

1998
While walking home, an "unlucky" mouse suffers minor mishaps which repeatedly save him from being eaten by various animals.

Good luck, bad luck

1991
Color illustrations and simple text depict children demonstrating superstitions showing what good luck is and what bad luck is.

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.

The golden goose

2006
Farmer Skint and his family on Woebegone Farm have fallen on hard times, but their luck changes with the arrival of a special golden goose.

The Cookie Company

2000
Thirteen-year-old Alex, the unluckiest boy alive, opens an unusual fortune cookie and is whisked into another world, where he is endangered and threatened by the evil game show hostess Cypress Vine.

The House Gobbaleen

1995
Unhappy over what he considers his bad luck, Tooley ignores his cat's warnings and invites a greedy little man into his home in the mistaken hope of improving his fortunes.

Very lucky ponies

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

Lucky socks

2002
Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.

The five fakirs of Faizabad

2011
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.

Bad luck Brad

2002
On the last day of school Brad keeps running into bad luck, but by the end of the day he realizes that there is always a chance things will get better.

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