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Island, The
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Heather Graham |
On a weekend vacation with her brother and niece, Beth Anderson is unnerved when a stroll on the beach reveals what appears to be a skull, and instantly recalls the retired couple who disappeared off… |
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The girls take over
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
The race is on! The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are ready to outdo one another again. Eddie is the first girl to ever try out for the school baseball team. Now she and Jake are competing for th… |
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Mack McGinn's big win
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Coleen Paratore |
Whether the prize is a soccer trophy or the esteem of Danville's elite, the McGinn family believes in winning, but while striving to prove he can be best at something, sixth-grader Mack inadvertently… |
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Excellent Emma
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Sally Warner |
When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, … |
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BMX blitz
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Scott Ciencin |
Three talented teenagers are competing in a BMX competition whose course has been kept a secret before the race, but one of them seems to be able to anticipate the course better than the other compet… |
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Bunheads
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Sophie Flack |
Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome… |
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The case of the missing moose
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Lewis B. Montgomery |
While Milo and Jazz, detectives-in-training, are at summer camps on the same lake, the mascot built by Milo's team for the color wars disappears. |
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QB blitz
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Stephanie True Peters |
Cal became a hero as the only seventh-grader on his middle school football team, but now his former teammates are in high school and a popular new player is challenging him for the quarterback positi… |
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Here comes Peter Cottontail
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Kristen L. Depken |
Follows the efforts of Peter Cottontail to compete against the nefarious Iron Tail in order to secure his position as the Easter Bunny. |
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Paul Bunyan vs. Hals Halson
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Teresa Bateman |
Hals Halson, who is nearly as tall as the legendary Paul Bunyan, strides into a logging camp determined to prove himself the greatest lumberjack in North America, despite Paul's attempts at friendshi… |
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Stealing The Prize
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Suzanne Weyn |
Taylor is excited for her first real competition -- but is her arch-enemy planning to steal the show?
Taylor Henry is thrilled to finally be in a real equestrian competition. But she's also nervou… |
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Project Alpha
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D. J. MacHale |
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis. |
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Quarterback hero
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Dean Hughes |
Eleven-year-old Sterling Malone tries out for quarterback because his father thinks African-Americans need to prove they can be leaders, but Sterling isn't sure he wants to be a leader. |
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Star of the circus
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Michael R. Sampson |
Each circus animal is pushed off the stage by a bigger animal until they learn that they all are stars in the circus. |
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Gold medal winter
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Donna Freitas |
Esperanza Flores's place on the United States Olympic figure skating team has come at the expense of an injured skater, so in addition to the pressure of sudden fame and outsized expectations Espi ha… |
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The pet war
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Allan Woodrow |
Eleven-year-old Otto wants a dog, and his older sister Lexi wants a cat, so their mother suggests that whoever can raise enough money to pay for their pet can choose--and so the competition begins.
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Force out
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Tim Green |
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.
"When Joey has to compete with his best f… |
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Fire & flood
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Scott, Victoria (Young adult author) |
Tella's brother Cody is sick and getting worse, so when she finds instructions on how to become a contender in the dangerous Brimstone Bleed race where she can win a cure for him, she jumps at the ch… |
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The mice of Bistrot des Sept Frères
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Marie Le Tourneau |
Petite Michelle comes to the rescue when the chef at a famous Parisian restaurant for mice runs out of the secret ingredient in his prize-winning cheese soup. Story is interspersed with French words. |
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Alphas
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Lisi Harrison |
At OCD the losers are tormented.
At Alpha Academy, they're sent home.
Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What … |
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