The Major Eights enter a competition at Center Stage Cafae but Scarlet is distracted, both by a mean new singer in a rival band and by an unsigned valentine.

When Meg finds out Grandma Sally is going to be her partner for the Centennial Strawberry Day contest, she thinks her chances at winning are gone and declares war on her grandmother.

Hoping to participate in the town's Summer Games field day, George searches for a sporting event to compete in.

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.

Future interior designer Maggie, a sixth-grader, focuses on an upcoming design contest to cope with friendship and family troubles, including having Tony, a half-brother she never knew existed, move in.

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.

Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.

"Four lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a titanium ticket"--

Rot, a mutant potato, enters a "Cutest in the World" contest but worries when he sees his competition.

Disappointed when her friends express more interest in an opponent's adorable puppy than in her own new Robo-pup during the Pinkville Pet Contest, Pinkalicious offers to help when her rival's puppy goes missing.