Lucky Girl

Author : Jamie Pacton
Publisher : Page Street Kids
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1645672085

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Lucky Girl by Jamie Pacton Pdf

In Jamie Pacton’s hilarious and poignant sophomore novel, a teen wins the lotto jackpot and suspicion and jealousy spread through her small town before she can claim her prize. Perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Becky Albertalli. 28,643,129. That’s how many dollars seventeen-year-old Fortuna Jane Belleweather just won in the lotto jackpot. It’s also how many reasons she has for not coming forward to claim her prize. If she reveals her win before she turns eighteen, Jane’s hoarder mother will get the money. The last thing her mom needs is millions of dollars to buy more stuff. But Jane’s birthday is a month away, and it’s hard to keep $28 million secret for long in her tiny Wisconsin town. After Jane’s best friend Bran declares on the news that he’ll be the one to find the lucky winner, he drags Jane into his schemes. In the meantime, everyone in town has big ideas about what they’d do with the money and strong opinions on why no one has claimed the prize. Suspicion and jealousy turns neighbor against neighbor and a hunt commences to find the lucky winner. As things in town get ugly, Jane begins to wonder: Could this much money actually be a bad thing?

Author : Amanda Maciel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062305350

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Lucky Girl by Amanda Maciel Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399546464

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Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar Pdf

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.

Author : Mei-Ling Hopgood
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616200121

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Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood Pdf

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.

Author : Nell Freudenberger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061873386

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Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger Pdf

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.

Author : M. Rickert
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250817341

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Lucky Girl by M. Rickert Pdf

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.

Author : N.K. Singh 'Nitesh'
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649195852

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Lucky Girl by N.K. Singh 'Nitesh' Pdf

“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.

Author : Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442488182

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Cassandra the Lucky by Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams Pdf

Determined to prove that her prophecies are real, Cassandra sends special fortune cookies to Mount Olympus Academy, and her fortunes end up coming true in very unexpected ways.

Author : Holly Smale
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780008254155

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Happy Girl Lucky (The Valentines, Book 1) by Holly Smale Pdf

Introducing The Valentines – Happy Girl Lucky, the first book in the hilarious new romantic-comedy series by Holly Smale, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Geek Girl books.

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781772601053

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Just Lucky by Melanie Florence Pdf

Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things…like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?

Author : Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593133927

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Lucky Girl by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu Pdf

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. “Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.”—Harper’s Bazaar (Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023) Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of finding a golden land of opportunity, Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American girl at school and witnesses the insidious racism her friend endures, forcing Soila to begin to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by her Kenyan upbringing. When she falls in love with a free-spirited artist, a man her mother would never approve of, she must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family, or to follow her heart and forge a life of her own design. Lucky Girl is a fierce and tender debut about the lives and loves we choose—what it meant to be an African immigrant in America at the turn of the millennium, and how a young woman finds a place for herself in the world.

Author : S. H. McAlister,C. B. Hammond
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781456758424

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Lucky Girl by S. H. McAlister,C. B. Hammond Pdf

Author : Ann Y. K Choi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501156120

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Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y. K Choi Pdf

Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.

Author : George Ella Lyon
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0789426137

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One Lucky Girl by George Ella Lyon Pdf

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.

Author : Tami Hoag
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525486466

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Lucky's Lady by Tami Hoag Pdf

Psychologist Serena Sheridan has come back to the small Louisiana town where she’d been raised—and where her grandfather has suddenly gone missing. Successful, ambitious, beautiful, Serena always found the darker world of the bayous far less predictable—and far more treacherous—than the life she’d chosen. And for help, she must turn to a man as mysterious and dangerous as the backcountry itself: Lucky Doucet. He’s a man with a past littered with secrets best left concealed—the perfect guide to lead Serena into a world of dazzling seduction, sudden violence, and raw natural beauty. From the exotic French Quarter to the most remote bayou, they would follow a trail of corruption and betrayal to a showdown that would require they trust not only their own deepest instincts for survival—but each other.