When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.

When Freddy's class holds a reading competition--with an author visit as the first prize--Freddy is determined to win, even if it means staying up all night.

A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean the winning school's toilet with a toothbrush! Mr. Ott, retired baseball pro, intends to lead Ella Mentry School to victory, but will his weird tactics actually make the team lose?

Determined to win a trophy at her school's fall festival and outshine her frenemy Alexa, Marya throws herself into selling the most tickets, but as she becomes laser-focused on victory, she begins to lose sight of what truly matters.

Desperate for a fresh start after being publicly shamed online, eighteen-year-old Riley Ozment becomes a contestant on a reality show set on a South American island where a treasure was lost centuries ago.

Best friends Pearl, Millie, and Halinka decide to enter a contest run by an astronaut to build a flying machine, but when a fire ruins their prototype, they have to improvise to meet the deadline.

While Cam's Aunt Molly is competing in a comedy contest, the expensive plate the winner will receive disappears and Cam and Eric set out to find it before the contest is over.

Nancy Drew and her classmates enter a model-building contest to win a chance to visit northern New Mexico, but before they can enter their pueblo model, it is destroyed, and the girls wonder if they have angered the spirits of the Native American tribe of the Taos Pueblo.

In this Nocturnals Level 1 Early Reader, The Best Burp, Bismark and a bat named Bink are playing a game-who can make the loudest burp! Tobin thinks both burps are good! Dawn hears the burps and asks who is burping. Bismark and Bink blame Tobin! Dawn tells them that burps are natural and that blaming others isn't how to be your best self.