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42) This means war!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1962, when her best friend Lowell begins to hang around new friends who think girls are losers, Juliet, a fearful fifth-grader, teams up with bold, brave Patsy who challenges the boys to a series of increasingly dangerous contests.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Colonel Lightfoot is never modest, especially when it comes to his dancing or his fine Virginia land. One piece of that land is turning to mud, and the devil himself is rumored to live in that murky mess, for on dark nights sparks fly high. How to put an end to the devil's mischief? Why, a dance contest with the fiery fiend himself. The colonel bristles with confidence, but the devil is equally sure of himself, until, recognizing his own false pride...
Series
Pokémon advanced battle volume 6
Publisher
Viz Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the Grand Festival continues, May decides to go ahead with her training under the guidance of Harley. But when she follows his advice in battle, it just might put her out of the competition.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.
48) Don't blink!
Author
Formats
Description
A girl and her animal friends challenge the reader to a staring contest in this interactive picture book.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Tina Cocolina is a cupcake searching for her perfect topping so that she can compete in the annual Cream of the Top Cupcake contest. Includes recipes for cupcakes and toppings from award-winning pastry chef Martin Howard.
50) The Hunger Games
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival...
51) Witch Wars
Author
Series
Witch Wars volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"When Fran the Fabulous Fairy turns up in Tiga Whicabim's shed to tell her she's a witch, Tiga doesn't believe her. Or at least not until Fran points out that TIGA WHICABIM is actually an anagram of I AM A BIG WITCH and magics her away down the drainpipes to compete in Witch Wars - the competition to crown the next Top Witch of Ritzy City"--
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 34
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
173 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Featuring maps, graphs, photographs, and questions used in previous National Geographic Bees, this guide presents geographic facts and helps readers understand themes and relationships, and how geographers view their world.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
55) Critter cafae
Author
Series
Isla of adventure volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
When Isla sets out to help her pastry champion grandparents in the annual Sol Bake-Off, the absence of ingredients and the animal's silence leads her to uncover the creatures' own celebration.
56) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
57) You can do it!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Practicing for the skateboard contest, Penny and Rod support their friend Brody, who navigates high expectations while trying to master a big jump.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 3
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.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 27
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.
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