luck

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luck

My lucky hat

1999
When Frank's favorite baseball player, the mighty Keefoffer, is in danger of striking out, Frank loans him his lucky hat to help him hit a home run.

Lucky leaf

2007
After his mother tells him to stop playing video games and go outside, a young boy tries to catch the last leaf on a tree, thinking it will bring him luck.

Karen's worst day

1989
Karen has a rotten, horrible, bad-luck day when nothing seems to go right. Her family tries to help her day get better.

Clara Lee and the apple pie dream

2011
Korean American fourth-grader Clara Lee longs to be Little Miss Apple Pie, and when her luck seems suddenly to change for the better, she overcomes her fear of public speaking and enters the competition.

The golden goose

2005
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.

Serendipity

2000
A child ponders the pleasant results of serendipity, such as getting extra pieces from the gumball machine, having a peanut in your pocket when you meet a squirrel, or finding a five-dollar bill.

I rode a horse of milk white jade

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

Fortunately

1980
Good and bad luck accompany Ned from New York to Florida on his way to a surprise party.

Lucky Duck

2004
Lucky Duck goes through his day blissfully unaware of the danger he keeps just missing.

My first day at camp

1999
Anna wants to take her lucky penny to camp on the first day because she is feeling a little afraid.

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