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41) Skateboard idol
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Series
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English
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When local skateboarding idol Scottie Devine announces a kind of treasure hunt in his home town in California, skating friends Griff and Annika are thrilled to participate--but soon the competition threatens to destroy their friendship.
42) Power play
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English
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Ninth-grade hockey player Kyla Woodson is hoping to win a spot on the varsity team mid-season--but she has at least one serious rival for the coveted position, and her supressed anger over her parents recent divorce seems to keep getting in the way.
43) Fire & flood
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tella's brother Cody is sick and getting worse, so when she finds instructions on how to become a contender in the dangerous Brimstone Bleed race where she can win a cure for him, she jumps at the chance--but there is no guarantee that she will win, or even survive.
45) Excellent Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, that she is good at something.
46) Bad habits
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart psychological thriller from the author of Good as Gone (a New York Times Notable Book) in which a grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herself"--
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Series
Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While Milo and Jazz, detectives-in-training, are at summer camps on the same lake, the mascot built by Milo's team for the color wars disappears.
48) Gold
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Zoë's status as best advice-giver at Allencroft Middle School is in jeopardy when sixth-grader Devon Sweeney begins to take over, and until she finds out what is really going on in Devon's life, Zoë will do just about anything to regain her exalted place in the school hierarchy.
50) Top elf
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English
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Ollie has always been happy just being an elf and inventing new games for Christmas with his best friend Celia--but then the current Santa (descendent of the original) decides to retire and announces that there will be an open competition for the position of next Santa (his son Klaus is not pleased) and suddenly Ollie and the other elves are vying with the Santa children for the Big Red Suit.
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Owen wins the last spot at the local basketball camp, leaving his twin Russ to join the "Multi-Sport Sampler" camp, but while Russ is inspired to study various sports and make sense of them, Owen is frustrated by not being the star.
53) Takedown
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
54) QB blitz
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
Cal became a hero as the only seventh-grader on his middle school football team, but now his former teammates are in high school and a popular new player is challenging him for the quarterback position by turning the coach and other players against Cal.
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fraternal twins Russ and Owen's domination of the seventh-grade basketball team falters when Mitch and Marcus Matthews, identical twins, arrive and prove their skill on the court and in the classroom.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A geeky, brilliant, cosmetic chemist, Anna Ellis, to win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams--and her boss--starts fake dating Craig's half-brother Marco, with whom Craig is super competitive, as an experiment in attraction, until her feelings for Marco become all-too real.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Although sixteen-year-old Sophie has grown up working in her family's Mediterranean restaurant in Washington, D.C., she is not prepared to compete on the new reality show, Teen Test Kitchen, when her best friend Alex convinces her to audition. Includes recipes.
59) Lakeshire Park
Author
Series
Proper romance (Megan Walker) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Amelia Moore needs to secure her sister's engagement to Sir Ronald or else the two sisters will be left destitute. The only problem is that Peter Wood has the same goal for his own sister. Amelia and Peter begin a rivalry--one that Amelia has no choice but to win--but competing against Peter makes Amelia vulnerable to losing the only thing she has left to claim--her heart"--
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and the experience brings out the best in her.
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