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Classroom 13 volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky"--
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a graphic-novel adaptation of the classic spine-tingler, the grandson of the story's original author depicts the eerie town and their shocking ritual in detailed four-color panels that breathe new life into the iconic tale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay." --
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English
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A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate her remarkable range-from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling "Queen of Suspense," returns with Alvirah Meehan—one of her most beloved characters—in these six dazzling, intertwined, and thrilling tales of sleuthing and suspense.
Together with her devoted mate, the ever-resourceful Alvirah has jumped into crime solving on a grand scale—and with her indomitable spirit and style. Among their many adventures, Alvirah and Willy find a dead actress in...
Together with her devoted mate, the ever-resourceful Alvirah has jumped into crime solving on a grand scale—and with her indomitable spirit and style. Among their many adventures, Alvirah and Willy find a dead actress in...
9) The lottery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every student at Saskatoon Collegiate knew that all the most important aspects of school life were controlled by a secret club called Shadow Council. Each fall, Shadow held a traditional lottery during which a single student's name was drawn. The rest of the student body called the student the lottery winner. But Shadow Council knew better; to them the winner was the lottery victim. Whatever the label, the fated student became the Council's go-fer,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery considers it her job to make sure none of the Lottery celebrations are forgotten, especially now at Christmas time, and in her large, gay, and multiethnic family there are a lot of occasions for celebration in the house they all call Camelottery--but when a terrible ice storm hits Toronto, one of her dads, and her favorite brother cannot make it home from India, and it becomes increasingly difficult to hang on to the holiday...
12) Life's Lottery
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brand new edition of Life's Lottery - an exciting speculative fiction novel that invites the reader to assume the role of the protagonist!
A role-playing novel that reveals how small decisions can have monumental consequences. If you choose the right possibilities you may live a long happy life, or be immensely rich, or powerful, or win the lottery. If you make other choices you may become a murderer, die young, make every mistake...
A role-playing novel that reveals how small decisions can have monumental consequences. If you choose the right possibilities you may live a long happy life, or be immensely rich, or powerful, or win the lottery. If you make other choices you may become a murderer, die young, make every mistake...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes readers to the Old West, where an emotionally wounded man and woman discover the true nature of love and marriage in the first romance in the Wife Lottery series.
Thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a “Wife Lottery”—a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives...
Thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a “Wife Lottery”—a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives...
14) Lottery
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Language
English
Description
A young tearaway wins the lottery, but risks losing it all when he becomes embroiled in a toxic love triangle with a pair of recovering scam artists.
15) Evacuee Lottery
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Language
English
Description
This story is about children in a world war who are sent away from homes likely to be in danger areas. Probably the first time they had been away from parents, and life that they knew. Exciting, frightening, bewildering. It was a dreadful time for the parents, sending their children to strangers, and for the foster parents who took the children into their homes. Some children could be unruly, dirty and uncouth. A time of learning for everyone; children...
16) Lottery Mania
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Series
Language
English
Description
CRIME CAPER: One man, fighting against the world to get what is rightfully his.
Multiple failed burglar Sidney Johnson suddenly finds himself the unlikely heir to a large fortune, millions of pounds, courtesy of his late Mother. His mother had faith in him in him in life, and in death, she is giving him one last chance.. Will her faith prove to be justified, or will Sidney let his mother down yet again.
Can Sidney get his hands on the money despite...
17) The Lottery
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Language
English
Description
Every small town has its secrets. And this one could tear his world apart.Nathan Thomas feels grateful for his loving family and a steady job in a town where work is scarce. Still haunted by a deadly accident that severed his closest friendships, he hopes his bad luck is well behind him. But a fresh betrayal and a shocking revelation could take everything he loves away.With his marriage strained to the breaking point, Nathan's forced to confront his...
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English
Description
"Valentine shmalentine – count me out!"Valerie Robinson isn't a fan of Valentine's Day or matchmaking services, so when her friend bullies her into attending a Seasoned Singles mixer, she figures it's highly unlikely that she'll find Mr. Right. But she's not expecting to be matched up with Mr. Wrong. Simon Constantine is the bane of her existence. It was hate at first sight when he walked into her office five years ago. He's too young. Too cocky....
19) National Lottery
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a book about greed, corruption, and a young mother trying to cope with the challenges of modern-day life. It is not for people who are easily offended or looking for a love story. As you burn through the pages you will be introduced to characters who will challenge your emotions, and maybe bring a tear to your eye. What would you do if you won the lottery? What would you do if suddenly you were a national celebrity? Be careful what you wish...