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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 has to deal with the resentment of her teammates--and their efforts to sabotage her routine.
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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65 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Eleven-year-old Jack Wickman is tired of skating in his big sister's shadow, after all she is five years older and a goalie (on the boys' team!) and he skates center so they really should not be compared to each other--he is convinced that he has the hockey talent, so all he needs is the chance to make a breakaway of his own.
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Publisher
Viz Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (ca. 66 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ash and his friend Pikachu explore the world of the Pokémon. Ash's goal is to become the greatest Pokémon master of all. He competes in the Indigo, Orange, Johto and Hoenn gyms and championships. He travels with his friends, Brock and Misty with her Togepi. He meets other characters who help him, like Tracey and May. They are constantly being pursued by Team Rocket members Jesse, James and Meowth who will stop at nothing to get Pikachu. They also...
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Two Brazilian American siblings, Lia and Luais, 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.
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Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hrs 44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.
86) Lowriders
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014-
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volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Lupe, Flapjack, and Elirio customize their car into a low rider for the Universal Car Competition to win the cash prize that will enable them to buy their own garage."--Book 1.
"Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Octopus are now the proud owners of their own garage--but when a series of earthquakes hit their town and Genie, their beloved cat, disappears they find themselves traveling to the realm of Mictlantecuhtli, Aztecgod of the Underworld,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Libros para niños
Pub. Date
2013
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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When Olivia sells cookies for her Young Pioneers troop, she hopes her lucky tights help her to sell more boxes of cookies than Francine.
¿Podrá Olivia vender más galletas que Francine este año? A lo mejor sí, ¡si lleva sus mallas de la buena suerte!
88) Used cars
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.
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Aristokittens volume 2
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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While hosting a Dog Biscuit Bake-Off in honor of their new puppy friends, a trio of siblings--the Aristokittens--are pitted against each other, which threatens to make this contest a furry fiasco!
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Tapper twins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, on the First (and last) Annual Culvert Prep Middle School Scavenger Hunt For Charity, and the adventures of twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper as their highly competitive teams scour New York for treasure.
92) Fast-pitch feud
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Now that twelve-year-old Anya is old enough to join her fourteen-year-old sister Marina on the fast-pitch softball team things are becoming tense between them: Anya has trouble catching her sister's pitches and resents Marina's criticism and being moved to the outfield, Marina is increasingly obsessed with her role as captain, and angry because Anya does not seem to take the game as seriously as she does--and with an important game coming up the sisters...
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Galaxy Zack volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
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123 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Picked to represent their planet Nebulon in the Interstellar Space Race, Zack and his friends navigate their specially designed car through an underwater maze, around planetary rings, and through the stars! But when trouble stirs within the team, Zack must take charge. Can he lead them to victory?"--
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Joy Revolution, a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
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Sasha Johnson-Sun might not know everything - like how to fully heal after her dad's passing or how many more Saturdays her mom can spend cleaning houses. But the one thing Sasha is certain of? She will graduate this year as Skyline High's class valedictorian. At least, she was sure before the principal calls Sasha and her cute, effortlessly gifted ex-best friend, Ezra Davis-Goldberg, into his office to deliver earth-shattering news: they're tied...
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Fox tails volume 3
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
44 pages ; 19 cm.
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Competitive fox siblings Fritz and Franny both love ice cream, but when Mr. Bear's ice cream truck stops on their street they spend so much time trying to outdo each other imagining multiple flavors and toppings (while all the other kids are getting theircones) that the only flavor left is marshmallow pickle ripple--and they can only have one scoop each.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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274 pages : 24 cm
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It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David?charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates...
97) Second shot
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When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot run he can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.
98) War dance
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music/dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic journey...
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Tapper twins volume 3
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A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Seventh grader Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She needs to focus on winning the school-wide speech competition and beating her nemesis, the popular and smart Ella Quinn, after last year's embarrassing hyperbole/hyperbowl mishap that cost her first place. But when Hazel discovers Ella is being harassed by golden boy Tyler Harris, she has to choose between winning and doing the right thing. No one would believe that a nice boy like...
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