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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students...
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about.
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this tenth Henry Heckelbeck adventure, Henry enters a wintry contest! It’s winter in Brewster and Henry Heckelbeck is ready for fun! Snowball fights, building snow friends, and drinking lots of hot chocolate—what’s not to love? But when Max sets up a winter wonderland contest, Henry finds that fun in the snow can be no fun. Can he put the win in winter with the help of a little magic? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost...
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Green, a loving alligator couple, try their hand at participating in the town talent show. Mr. Green is a singing sensation in the shower at home. In the talent show he cannot sing a note until Mrs. Green comes up with a splashing idea.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rebellious and outspoken Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials--a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans.
In this all-new novel from the world of Dhonielle Clayton’s sweeping, lush Belles series, rebellious, outspoken, fan-favorite Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials―a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orléans. Sophia, the dangerous and erratic former queen, has been imprisoned, restoring peace to Orléans....
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Carnelle, a hellraiser, enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the old-fashioned town where she was raised. Carnelle's not the usual contestant, but her cousin is a famous winner, and Carnelle's determined to equal her, no matter what.
Author
Series
Witches at war volume 1
Publisher
Pavilion Children's
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Esmeila Sniff and her apprentice set off to find other witches to nominate her for the Wickedest Witch, the meanest witches in the world are hatching their own plans to obtain the title.
Author
Publisher
Voyager
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In Becar, everyone knows that who you are in this life will determine what you are in your next life. The augurs can read your fate in your aura: hawk, heron, tortoise, jackal, human. Armed with that knowledge, you can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, you come back as a kehok, a monster, and you will always be a kehok for the rest of time. Unless you can win the Races.
Author
Series
Puzzling world of Winston Breen volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest to win fifty-thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uni slides down the rainbow to see the little girl--the best friend a unicorn could have. It's baking time! The little girl is worried that her cake won't be as pretty and tasty as the other children's. Will Uni use unicorn magic to help? Will the little girl win the blue ribbon--or will she find that winning isn't everything, and the most important thing is having fun with friends?
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers and dissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the masterminds behind it, like director Lenora Slaughter, who...
13) Spin the dawn
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars.Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To win a lucrative scholarship to one of the nation's best culinary schools, seventeen-year-old Carter Lane travels to Savannah to compete in a cooking contest and finds herself falling in love with her main rival, Reid Yamada.
17) Teen spirit
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A shy teenager from a small town befriends a mentor who encourages her to pursue her dreams through a singing competition.
18) The heat is on
Author
Series
Next Best Junior Chef volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The competition heats up in episode two of this zesty series for fans of MasterChef Jr. and Kids Cook-off! With this episode's theme of family and tradition, from a diner challenge to a quinceañera to the farmer's market, the junior chefs will have to sauté their way through the chewiest challenges yet. They're the best in the nation, but can they handle the twists and turnovers week two has in store, on- and off-camera? Which junior chefs can...
19) Tag, you're dead
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Seveneen-year-old social media influencer Anton starts a livestreamed and high-stakes game of Tag to find a new assistant, but four contestants have ulterior motives.
''From the bestselling author of Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are and Good Girls Die First comes an entertaining new thriller filled with knife-edged tension, twists you won't see coming, and contestants who will do anything to win — even something deadly. When teen social media...
20) House of dragons
Author
Series
House of dragons volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the Emperor dies, the five royal houses of Etrusia attend the Call, where one of their own will be selected to compete for the throne. It is always the oldest child, the one who has been preparing for years to compete in the Trial. But this year is different. This year these five outcasts will answer the call...
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