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An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020www.SimonandSchuster.comThis book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, isentirely coincidental.Text © 2021 by Rachael LippincottJacket illustration © 2021 by Lisa PerrinJacket design by Lizzy Bromley © 2021 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS and related marks are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 orbusiness@simonandschuster.com.The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact theSimon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.Interior design by Lizzy BromleyLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Lippincott, Rachael, author.Title: The lucky list / Rachael Lippincott.Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021]. | Audience: Ages 12 and Up. | Summary:Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother’s death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish everyexciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother’s bucket list.Identifiers: LCCN 2020056527 | ISBN 9781534468535 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534468559 (ebook)Subjects: CYAC: Adventure and adventurers--Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Luck—Fiction. | Fathers and daughters—Fiction. | Lesbians—Fiction.Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L568 Luc 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056527
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This one’s for you, Mom. I love y
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moving back into town after twenty
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of those babies,” my dad whispers
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It’s her eyes, though, that start
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“Not so much anymore,” I say.an
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same words hundreds of times. I alw
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I smile at him, nudging him right b
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distance just in front of me, HUCKA
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apron and my pink Nina’s Bakery h
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resident gay of Huckabee.”Blake l
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4A few hours later I push open the
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chance.Blake appears in the closet
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“Do you hate it?”She’s the fi
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“I can’t believe your dad was s
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She stops dead and looks back, our
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Could I do them too?
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“I spent my morning slaving away
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I have to do it myself.I picture it
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Until now. If I can stop chickening
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I sigh, shutting the water off and
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My name will come up. Matt will get
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words become clearer, the block let
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out what the whole quote was. I cou
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She grins and shakes her head at me
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fiction books, and World War II his
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“Au milieu de l’hiver, j’appr
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“I’d hate to have to take the t
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calculus class she was probably the
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thinking they already know.”It fe
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“Okay. Fine. It has to be a small
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11I usually don’t work on Sundays
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I’m honestly not sure we’d be f
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dust behind us.I glance out the win
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much just be hiding out in my house
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13I sit on the steps of my house, s
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My eyes widen, and I give her a “
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now that she’s on the other end o
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to set, sending a shower of deep or
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She’s the first person I feel lik
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the cat dragged in.”“Nice to se
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15I meet up with Blake aer work on
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check off “3. Go on a picnic” a
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“Blake! I swear to God, don’t l
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17I spend most of the next day hidi
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afternoons. But I also think about
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pumps are older than dirt.”“No
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Claire in Kauai over spring break,
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wrist. “Your mom gave it to my da
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I’d needed someone more than anyt
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We’re planning on camping out in
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Blake’s silent, leaving a space f
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20The first thing I feel when I wak
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Page 109 and 110: needles and all that.Even though I
Page 111 and 112: 21When we pull up to my house, I’
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Page 115 and 116: e story had gone viral aer a local
Page 117 and 118: 23The second Nina pulls into the pa
Page 119 and 120: “Yeah.” He nods. “Okay.”Rel
Page 121 and 122: My voice trails o and I hold up the
Page 123 and 124: 25The next forty-eight hours pass i
Page 125 and 126: She turns around to look at me, her
Page 127 and 128: Blake’s shoulder brushes against
Page 129 and 130: 27This is exhilarating.My adrenalin
Page 131 and 132: really wants. Except for this.”It
Page 133 and 134: look down at Matt. For a moment I w
Page 135 and 136: e thought pushes me out of the room
Page 137 and 138: I drop my bag in the entryway, my v
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Page 141 and 142: wanted,” I say. “All the years
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Page 145 and 146: carefully uproot a sunflower to rep
Page 147 and 148: his arm around me. “Hey! I still
Page 149 and 150: And if my mom taught me anything th
Page 151 and 152: A new chance, just like the one I h
Page 153 and 154: boyfriend a girl could ask for.en J
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