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Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 279 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
83) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he?ll have to do better: he?s going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world?s greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom?s credit card and accidentally spent $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training...
Author
Series
Fairy Bell sisters volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
122 p. cm.
Language
English
Description
"Goldie Bell competes in Queen Titania's Fancy-Dress Party on the Mainland and needs to overcome various obstacles without the support of her sisters"--
Author
Series
Fountas & Pinnell
R
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan...
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Language
English
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"Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim.
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Excited for spring break, third-graders Marya, Hanna, and Alexa plan their visit to Skye Adventure Park, determined to experience all the park has to offer, but when Marya becomes determined to beat Alexa on the park's obstacle course she loses sight of everything else the park has to offer.
90) Starling house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...
91) Tag, you're dead
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When teen social media influencer Anton Frazer stages a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag where the prize is to become one of his live-in personal assistants, his fans go wild. Outfitted with body cams, GPS trackers, and pressure sensors to keep tally of who's disqualified, contestants are split into Chasers and Runners then let lose into the night-covered urban jungle to hunt each other down. While the whole world watches. Four contestants, however,...
Author
Series
Sunbearer duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Transgender demigod Teo is unexpectedly selected for the Sunbearer Trials, a fierce competition among demigod heroes where the winner sacrifices the loser to Sol, their blood fueling the Sun Stones that protect Reino del Sol.
"Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I'm just a Jade. I'm not a real hero." As each new decade begins, the Sun's power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil...
93) Just a kite
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.
94) Pizza my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping ... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that...
Author
Series
I funny volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Comedian Jamie Grimm, accompanied by Uncle Frank, New Aunt Flora, and friends, circles the globe as host of regional competitions, then competes, himself, in the Planet's Funniest Kid Worldwide contest.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Micekings volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
115 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stiltonord has trouble selecting a winner as the judge of the Shield Mouselet Mega Challenge, and while everyone is distracted by the competition, the dragons launch a surprise attack.
Author
Series
Flesh and false gods volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Princess Calla Tuoleimi lurks in hiding. Five years ago, a massacre killed her parents and left the palace of Er empty...and she was the one who did it. Before King Kasa's forces...
98) Night hunt
Author
Series
Dragon kingdom of Wrenly volume 3
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruskin is back on Crestwood to witness the Night Hunt, a legendary event wherein the bravest young dragons on Crestwood are chosen to participate in a high-stakes scavenger hunt"--
Author
Series
Book of tea volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined.
For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it is her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her-- the poison tea that now threatens...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387, 18 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...
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