Maddie is a hard working high school senior, waiting to hear from the colleges she applied to, when on a whim she buys a lottery ticket and wins; suddenly she is the center of everybody's attention, including her struggling family, and not necessarily in a good way--only Seth Nguyen, her charming coworker at the local zoo, seems oblivious to her luck, and Maddie is not sure whether telling him will change their developing relationship.

"Terrific," says Eugene, after winning an all-expenses-paid vacation in Bermuda. "I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." Unfortunately, Eugene's luck is a lot worse than that. First, his cruise ship sinks, then he ends up stranded on a tiny island. But Eugene isn't alone. There's another castaway, a parrot with a busted wing, who tells him what there is to eat and drink and how to build a sailboat. Cranky Eugene pays attention, and his luck begins...

A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Hickory's grave.

"When a strange key opens a door to good fortune and to Opportunity, who will stay with her for seven serendipitous days, Lila soon discovers that the person who lost the key will do anything to get it back"--

Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.

In the midst of a terrible week, Mia receives a lucky charm from her cousins from Puerto Rico, and when her luck turns around, she attributes it to the charm, but when her bad luck returns, she must come to grips with the truth.

Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality-show inspired competition to determine who will replace the school's legendary class clown, Paulie Fink.

Bayport Elementary's detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy are on the case when someone sabotages the hockey team's lucky charm right before the championship game.

After being dumped by his best friend and having a hard time finding new friends in middle school, Greg decides to change his luck and turn all his decisions over to chance.

Presents three novella-length tales of horror following three friends, Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, who cannot seem to shake a string of bad luck.