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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 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court, and at home.
Author
Series
Team Chu volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kate and Marine, best friends and longtime students at the intensely competitive Paris Opera Ballet School, must decide what price they are willing to pay to win the only available spot in the professional ballet company that operates the school.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two towns, Tralee and Tralah, compete in an annual St. Patrick's Day decorating contest which Tralah boastfully always wins, but when their hearts are put to the test by a little man with pointed ears, Tralee wins with no effort at all.
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.
9) 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
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two Brazilian American siblings, Lia and Luís, are always competing, even when it comes to their favorite Brazilian snacks from their family's store; they want to know which of them has more, and they use various mathematical techniques to pick a winner--and then share the delicious results.
12) King of the ice
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miles Lewis is a fourth-grader who loves science and sports. So after his teacher announces a class trip to an ice-skating rink, he doesn't sweat it--how hard could ice-skating be? But shen his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."--
13) 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
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best ideas for school functions to which one will be their graduating class's valedictorian. However, in the twenty-four hours left they have as high school students, the two learn they share something much deeper than a rivalry"--
15) Project Alpha
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
16) Awkward
Author
Series
Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
Cross-country running is Stella Steckler's life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she has friends, goes to parties, has a life off the course. Their lives are upended when...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Monsieur Oliphant's cake shop, the only bakery game in town, has long had customers lining up outside its door for Oliphant's delicious jelly rolls and marvelous wedding cakes . . . until the day cookie concocter Mademoiselle Fée takes over the old shoemaker's shop. And it isn't long before the divine piemaker Madame Clotilde soon moves into the old bric-a-brac shop. Three different bakers all trying to outclass one another means their little cul-de-sac...
Author
Series
Peasprout Chen volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Second book in a Taiwanese-inspired middle-grade fantasy series about a young girl's quest to become a champion of Wu Liu, an art form that blends figure skating with martial arts"--
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