The Unluckiest Kid in the Universe

The Unluckiest Kid in the Universe
Author: Martha Anne Giddens
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2006-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781412079358

Twelve-year old John Wayne Cooper considers himself to be the unluckiest kid ever born. Why? He's got it all figured out and shares his three good reasons. He mixes wry wit with sarcastic humor to describe experiences of his summer with Grandpa, his pet squirrel, his friends and his first love. He tells his story as only an adolescent can, exploring such questions as, "Where did I come from?" to "Why are there flying fish?" Kids will easily relate to his language, finding JohnOs antics and ideas to be hilarious. By the way, how do you say "water"? Adults will laugh out loud as they gain insight into how adolescents think and ponder questions about life and its inevitable situations. Parents will appreciate the transformation of John from sarcastic malcontent to thoughtful and insightful enjoyer of life.

The Unluckiest Boy in the World

The Unluckiest Boy in the World
Author: Andrew Norriss
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2006-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141318775

It just isn't Nicholas's lucky day when he accidentally falls under an ancient curse. From that moment on, misfortune, calamity and disaster follow him everywhere. Only a brave person would want to be his friend. But then he meets Fiona, who is prepared to take that risk, is Nicholas's luck about to change?

The Unluckiest Boy in the World

The Unluckiest Boy in the World
Author: Helen Aldcroft
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1398439592

George never seems to be very lucky. Nothing ever seems to go quite right for him. In fact, George believes that he is the unluckiest boy in the world. When his class is involved in a school project involving growing sunflowers and the production of a play called “James and The Giant Sunflower”, which is to be performed in front of all the parents at the summer fair, things seem to go from bad to worse for George. Will he ever be able to beat Ben – good at everything and always the first with his hand up in class? How does Mr. Greenwood, the school caretaker, get involved in George’s fortunes? Will George’s luck ever change?

Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever (The Baby-Sitters Club #62)

Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever (The Baby-Sitters Club #62)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054576792X

The Papadakis family takes in a foster child, a troubled young girl named Lou, and Kristy soon discovers that Lou's difficult behavior makes her a real challenge to baby-sit.

Sharing Secrets

Sharing Secrets
Author: Matthew Metzger
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1786517744

Adam has a secret. But maybe Charlie has a few of his own. Adam's got a secret and nobody knows. He's promised himself never to get into relationships and risk revealing it, but Charlie Fielding has a way of getting under one's skin. One party, one kiss and Adam is faced with a horrible choice—tell Charlie the truth or keep quiet. And either way, lose the only friends he's had in years. But Charlie might have a secret, too—and everybody knows but Adam.

Surviving the Worst

Surviving the Worst
Author: Patricia Oddo
Publisher: Max Milo
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 2315011620

"How is it possible to recover and love the world again when you have lived through the worst? "On the night of September 5, 1990, my two children, Lucie and Sylvain, were murdered by their own father. Faced with such a tragedy, I could have killed myself, but I chose life. Like many mothers, I believed that I could never live without my children. And yet... today, I am no longer ashamed to be alive. Surviving hell is possible. "There is not a word in the dictionary that is good enough to define the nothingness in which I and my family found ourselves." "To fill this gap, I decided to write my story. How can you survive the death of your children? I hope that my testimony will help you, dear reader, to understand the pain of the victims and perhaps one day to overcome it." In this extraordinary story, of rare humanity, Patricia Oddo finds the strength to live for her children, to fall in love, to be a mother again, to speak without taboo about this tragedy that struck her children, and to mourn this tragedy thirty years later. Patricia Oddo is a secretary and works in a family business near Chartres, France.