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Lucky Girl

Author: Jamie Pacton

Publisher: Page Street YA

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1645672093

A hilarious and poignant reflection on what money can and cannot fix 58,642,129. That’s how many dollars seventeen-year-old Fortuna Jane Belleweather just won in the lotto jackpot. It’s also about how many reasons she has for not coming forward to claim her prize. Problem #1: Jane is still a minor, and if anyone discovers she bought the ticket underage, she’ll either have to forfeit the ticket, or worse . . . Problem #2: Let her hoarder mother cash it. The last thing Jane’s mom needs is millions of dollars to buy more junk. Then . . . Problem #3: Jane’s best friend, aspiring journalist Brandon Kim, declares on the news that he’s going to find the lucky winner. It’s one thing to keep her secret from the town — it’s another thing entirely to lie to her best friend. Especially when . . . Problem #4: Jane’s ex-boyfriend, Holden, is suddenly back in her life, and he has big ideas about what he’d do with the prize money. As suspicion and jealousy turn neighbor against neighbor, and no good options for cashing the ticket come forward, Jane begins to wonder: Could this much money actually be a bad thing?

Lucky Broken Girl

Author: Ruth Behar

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0399546448

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Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award! “A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative—based on the author’s childhood in the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie’s plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie’s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.

Lucky Girl

Author: Mei-Ling Hopgood

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1565129415

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In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America, the newly adopted child of a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing, never really identifying with her Asian roots or harboring a desire to uncover her ancestry. She believed that she was lucky to have escaped a life that was surely one of poverty and misery, to grow up comfortable with her doting parents and brothers. Then, when she's in her twenties, her birth family comes calling. Not the rural peasants she expected, they are a boisterous, loving, bossy, complicated middle-class family who hound her daily by phone, fax, and letter, in a language she doesn't understand until she returns to Taiwan to meet them. As her sisters and parents pull her into their lives, claiming her as one of their own, the devastating secrets that still haunt this family begin to emerge. Spanning cultures and continents, "Lucky Girl" brings home a tale of joy and regret, hilarity, deep sadness, and great discovery as the author untangles the unlikely strands that formed her destiny.

Lucky Girl

Author: Amanda Maciel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0062305352

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Lucky Girl is an unflinching exploration of beauty, self-worth, and sexual assault, from the author of the acclaimed Tease. Rosie is a beautiful girl—and it’s always been enough. Boys crush on her, men stare at her, girls (begrudgingly) admire her. She’s lucky and she knows it. But it’s the start of a new school year and she begins to realize that she wants to be more. Namely, she’s determined to be better to her best friend, Maddie, who’s just back from a summer program abroad having totally blossomed into her own looks. Rosie isn’t thrilled when Maddie connects with a football player who Rosie was hooking up with—but if it makes her friend happy, she’s prepared to get over it. Plus, someone even more interesting has moved to town: Alex, who became semifamous after he stopped a classmate from carrying out a shooting rampage at his old high school. Rosie is drawn to Alex in a way she’s never experienced before—and she is surprised to discover that, unlike every other guy, he seems to see more to her than her beauty. Then at a party one night, in the midst of a devastating storm, something happens that tears apart Rosie’s life and sets her on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to face uncomfortable truths about reputation, identity, and what it means to be a true friend.

Lucky Girl

Author: M. Rickert

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 125081734X

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Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer is a story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert. “Smooth and ruthless, Lucky Girl is M. Rickert at her ice-cold best.”—Laird Barron Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner—all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is—she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that’s seasonally appropriate. But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale—or one’s past—can never be tamed once unleashed. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lucky Girls

Author: Nell Freudenberger

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0061873381

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First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger’s debut story collection Lucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. The characters—expatriates, often by accident—are attracted to the places they find themselves in a romantic way, or repelled by a landscape where every object seems strange. For them, falling in love can be inseparable from the place where it happens. Living according to unfamiliar rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unique ways. In the title story, a young woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death. The protagonist of “Outside the Eastern Gate” returns to her childhood home in Delhi, to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother, who left her family for a wild journey over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. In “Letter from the Last Bastion,” a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a novelist who’s built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and who, in his letters, confides in her a secret about his past. Highly anticipated in the literary community and beyond, Lucky Girls marks the debut of a very special talent that places her among today’s most gifted young writers.

Lucky Girl

Author: N.K. Singh 'Nitesh'

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1649195850

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“Love and lust can arrive at the same time and often do. Things can get super confusing. As a teen, I was driven largely by lust, but I was trying to focus on true love.” Riya and Rehan didn’t care for anyone after falling in love. They were on a rollercoaster without the seatbelt. They didn’t care for highs and lows. They knew that they could be thrown out, trampled beneath the wheels or thrown up into the heavens. They loved and married against their parents’ wishes. But the real problem began after two years when Rehan admitted himself in a hospital. Riya lost Rehan and struggled a lot. But that made her know the importance of parents and the difference between love and marriage.

One Lucky Girl

Author: George Ella Lyon

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789426130

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Even though their trailer is destroyed by a tornado, a young boy's family is grateful because they find his baby sister alive. Full-color illustrations. 10 1/4 8 3/4.

Lucky Girl

Author: Denise Gelberg

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-17

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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Irene Adelson's beginnings in post-WWII New York City are nothing if not modest, but her extraordinary gifts begin to make themselves known around the time she begins school. In her youth, when she comes face to face with devastating trauma, she turns to science as a means of coping with the events that cause her so much pain, certain that science will provide the path to unlocking life's mysteries. A college grad at age nineteen, with an MD/PhD in hand by twenty-six, the brave, determined, and whip smart Irene Adelson becomes a physician-scientist who makes a paradigm-changing discovery. The secret sauce in her life is love; a love that soaks deep into her very being, giving her the courage to confront the foes that threaten to derail her life and career, and turning bad luck into something altogether different.

Lucky Girl

Author: S. H. McAlister w/ C. B. Hammond, M.D.

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-05-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1456758411

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Sharon had all the advantages, truly lucky! She grew up in a loving and stable family, graduated from the college of her choice, began her career in a town that she loved, Charlotte, and met and married the love of her life. For a decade they led an ideal life. Th en illness struck - she was diagnosed at 42 with stage III breast cancer. She takes us through her various therapies with clarity and humor, lucky girls don’t question or complain. Th en, one month after she completed her treatment, her husband, David, was diagnosed with “Lou Gherig’s Disease” (ALS). Sharon chronicles his saga, ending with his death 5 years later. Shortly afterwards her cancer recurs. Th roughout this story Sharon notes the friends, new and old, who provided so many kindnesses to them and how they dealt with such horrible problems - making her truly a “Lucky Girl”. Th is is a story of strength, love and commitment. To quote a friend: “Sharon brings us hope. Hope for the day. Hope you can move past pain and loss. Hope to believe there’s a new day.”