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21) Double Dutch
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
22) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
24) Don't blink
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl and her animal friends challenge the reader to a staring contest in this interactive picture book.
Author
Series
Song of wraiths and ruin volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister Nadia as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal: kill Karina, crown princess of Ziran, in exchange for Nadia's freedom"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Gollywhopper Games volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling money from Golly Toy and Game Company.
27) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
30) Game time!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[Scholastic edition]
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations, some color ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hotdog, Lizzie, and Kev are training for GAME DAY! They want to win the big prize--an awesome trip to Rainbow Island! That's where Kev's mom lives! They'll need skill, speed, and strength. Do they have what it takes to win?--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited...
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 27
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lia Sawyer teams up with Beckett--one of the charming Blackwell boys, the latest generation of a rival magic family--to win a stage magic contest and out-con the bad guys.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Halloween and Hot Rod Hamster is going to a party! But first, he must come up with a costume that's fun and spooky enough to win the contest.
36) Harry's pony
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When Harry wins a pony in a contest, his friends try to find a way to help him keep it, but it is his aunt and her friends who come up with a solution.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library."--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kevin, a hydroponic marijuana grower in Vancouver, watches his girlfriend of fourteen years participate in MarsNow, a reality TV show where a collection of science nerds and wannabe influencers compete for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars.
39) 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.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band with Duck Ellington, Bee Holliday, and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Monkey, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.
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