Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a volunteer position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.

Summary: On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

This is Slappy's world -- You only scream in it! Kelly Crosby is the new kid in school. So far, it's not going so well. He's already gotten lost, had trouble making friends, and annoyed the monster that lives in the school basement. That's right. This new school has a monster. Every year, at a party called Friiight Night, one (un)lucky kid is chosen to be the monster's special guest of honor. Guess whose luck is about to run out?

As the annual I. B. Rotten Competition approaches, the school's egotistical schemer, Bernie Bridges, fears that his pet parrot, Lippy, is no longer a good luck charm.

"Ducky is unlucky. Somehow things always turn out wrong for him. One day he decides to go to the park to look for a four-leaf clover, which he knows will bring him good luck. But instead of finding a four-leaf clover, he meets Piggy, then Bunny, then Pup, and he realizes that having fun with friends makes him the luckiest duck of all"--

When Bear's friend Mouse tells him that finding a four-leaf clover means one is lucky, the little bear searches for one, despite the discouraging words of other animals.

When sixth-grader Livvie decides to throw a chain letter in the trash, bad luck ensues.

Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she...

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.

¿Quién dijo que los gatos negros traen mala suerte? ¿Y si, en cambio, fueran las mariposas las que traen desdicha, mala suerte o desgracia? ¿Pero realmente debemos creer en estas cosas? El pequeño protagonista de este libro quizás no podrá contestar a estas preguntas, pero puede que tenga una idea de cómo son las cosas. Sigámoslo entonces entre temerarios cruces de carreteras, espejos rotos y leche derramada bajo escaleras en equilibrio precario...