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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Description
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 to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
Author
Series
Shades of magic volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
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...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage but is shaken to the core when a stranger shows up with the same unique birthmark, and a deadly assassin shows up moments later. In order to protect his family -- and the fate of the earth -- Cole and his companions must travel across the world and into other dimensions to discover their unique magical abilities and defeat Outworld's monstrous champions in...
Author
Series
Princess trials volume 1
Publisher
Cordelia Castel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Thirty young women. A handsome prince. A battle to the death. Water is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is divided into kingdoms ruled by royal elites. Born into the lowest Echelon of the Kingdom of Phangloria, sixteen-year-old Zea Calico faces a life of hunger, thirst, and toil. The only way out...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When a mustachioed rabbit spots a mustache contest, he's sure he has the competition beat. That is, until a pesky frog hops up with his own fine mustache. And a duck waddles up with a...duckstache? Soon, the competition is full of moosestaches and mousestaches, whalestaches and tailstaches--and every kind of 'stache in between."--
11) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
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.
12) Going places
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rafael has looked forward to the Going Places contest and builds his go-cart from a kit in record time, but his neighbor, Maya, has a much more interesting and creative idea for her entry and Rafael decides to help.
13) The candymakers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionery Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
14) Buddy games
Publisher
Saban Films, WWE Studios, Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
After six lifelong friends have a five-year falling out, Bob, aka "The Bobfather," reunites his pals for the Buddy Games, an insane competition of absurd physical and mental challenges with the chance to win a $150,000 pot. Now all bets are off as the determined dudes fight, claw, and party for the big bucks in this star-studded bro-fest.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Distraught over her family's financial state, which is forcing them to sell their vacation home on the island where they spend each summer, twelve-year-old Phoebe sees her close friendship with Kit self-destructing as they both become involved in a local talent show.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Green has a plan to guess the number of gumballs in a GIANT gumball machine! Mrs. Green's plan involves luck, but Mr. Green's plan involves luck and math skills. Can they both be winners? And what would they do if they won all those gumballs?
17) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
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.
19) King Arthur
Author
Series
A Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 13
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Arthur's third-grade class competes at the Middle Ages Fare they lose at everying. Their only hope for vsctory is if Arthur can pull a sword from a stone.
20) The biggest fish
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The mayor's contest to find the biggest fish in Littletown is won in an unexpected way.
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