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Author
Series
Tiny pretty things volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fraternal twins Russ and Owen's domination of the seventh-grade basketball team falters when Mitch and Marcus Matthews, identical twins, arrive and prove their skill on the court and in the classroom.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
120 p.
Language
English
Description
Zack and Drake venture to Gluco, the candy planet, for some Easter fun but while competing in such activities as an egg toss and a three-legged race, Zack is so determined to come in first that he considers cheating to win.
10) Robo-Dodo rumble
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 96 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Koko Dodo's cookie shop is facing some stiff competition from an evil robotic dodo, and a giant sea monster starts destroying the town, but Didi Dodo has some daring plans.
11) Boxitects
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Meg goes to Maker School to hone her talent for building with boxes, but when Simone, another boxitect, arrives they become so competitive they nearly fail in the annual Maker Match.
12) Force out
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alicia is a tech giant, wealthy beyond compare. Kelly is a stay-at-home mother and Stanford legacy. Maren makes three: single, broke, and out of place among the rich and elite. All their daughters are natural choices for Stanford: except the school can only recommend one student. As the competition heats up, an attempt is made on one of the girl's lives and the community spirals into panic. Now the mothers have to decide if one of them is capable...
14) Timberjack
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the rugged Canadian forests, a young man avenges himself on a timber-business rival whom he suspects of murdering his father"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
With the town's annual Grand Festival of Inventions coming up, Cleonardo is determined to invent something impressive to enter, something that will impress her inventor father Geonardo.
16) I'm on it!
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Frog and Goat turn a simple game into an all-out competition, things get out of hand...until finally, they're over it"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
Author
Series
Peasprout Chen volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peasprout Chen dreams of becoming a legend of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful art of martial arts figure skating. As the first students from the rural country of Shin to attend Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout and her little brother, Cricket, have some pretty big skates to fill. They soon find themselves in a heated competition for top ranking. Tensions rise when the dazzling pearl buildings of the academy are vandalized, and outsider...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without...
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