Fast Fridays: A Little Bit of Luck, a Little Bit of Irish!
#1 Now a Major Motion Picture
By Cori McCarthy
In Ireland with her brother during the filming of a movie based on her grandmother’s wildly popular Elementia trilogy, Iris, seventeen, decides to shut down production and end the annoying craze.
#2 The Call
By Peadar O’Guilin
For the last twenty-five years, every teenager in Ireland has been subject to “the call” which takes them away to the land of the Sídhe. Nessa Doherty knows that very few return alive, but she is determined to be one of them.
#3 The Carnival at Bray
By Jessie Ann Foley
Uprooted from Chicago to rural Ireland, Maggie searches for her place in the country she now calls home before enduring a tragedy that sends her on a pilgrimage to fulfill her uncle’s request.
#4 Spellbook of the Lost and Found
By Moira Fowley-Doyle
One stormy Irish summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things.When they discover the spellbook, it changes everything. It’s full of hand-inked charms to conjure back things that have been lost. And it just might be their chance to find what they each need to set everything back to rights.
#5 Lucky in Love
By Kasie West
Maddie buys a lottery ticket on a whim and wins; and suddenly she is the center of everybody’s attention, including her struggling family, and not necessarily ina good way–only Seth, her charming coworker at the zoo, seems oblivious to her luck, and Maddie is not sure whether telling him will change their developing relationship.
#6 Windfall
By Jennifer E. Smith
Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test.
#7 A Big Dose of Lucky
By Marthe Jocelyn
Malou, a biracial orphan, is on her own for the first time, trying to discover her parents’ identities.
#8 Lucky Few
By Kathryn Ormsbee
Homeschooler Stevie Hart meets Max, a strange boy who is obsessed with death, but what starts off as fun together begins spiraling downward when Stevie’s diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with Max, and her best friend, Sanger, announces she is moving out of state.
