Bad Luck Cubs: The Curse of the Billy Goat and Other Sports Curses

Contributor(s): Cooke, Tim (Author)

ISBN: 9798765689028

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

$23.99

Pub Date: August 1, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 08 to 12

Physical Info: 0.30" H x 9.10" L x 7.20" W ( 0.55 lbs) 32 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Curses! (Alternator Books (R))

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000559098 ( Bad Luck Cubs: The Curse of the Billy Goat and Other Sports Curses)

Reading level: 5.00

Interest level: MG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

Sports fans like to blame curses when their team isn't playing well. But is there really something supernatural at play, or just bad luck? Learn the stories behind some famous sports curses.

Brief description: Tim Cooke is a graduate of Oxford University. He has worked in children's publishing for more than 20 years as an author and editor. Among his publications as writer or editor are numerous sets about military history, particularly the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War.

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