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Unofficial gamer's adventure volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Steve is invited to participate in an elite building competition on Mushroom Island. Steve builds his dream house to impress the judges, but just as they begin judging, the island is overrun with Endermen. Mushroom islands are known for not having hostile mobs, so everyone knows it's the work of a griefer. Is it one of the contestants? Nobody knows, but they all have to work together to battle this invasion of the Endermen.
Author
Series
Life in the wild volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is a comic-adventure story of a mild-mannered moose who learns how to take life by the antlers. This moose may live in the wild, but he doesn't act it --- he watches from the sidelines as his friends have fun. Every now and then, he wonders if he's missing out on anything. The moose's unlikely hero-journey is a lighthearted, contemporary fable that celebrates living life to the fullest.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade soccer forward Nick Osborne and his teammates are highly competitive but, with help from his soccer-playing aunt, Nick begins to see that good sportsmanship is more important than winning. Includes a recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and the real story behind the novel.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 4
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Simon Ellis and the rest of the third grade Franklin School Friends participate in a spelling bee where Simon's competitive spirit takes over until he realizes that sometimes the best way to win is to take a chance and let other people shine.
12) I'm on it!
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When Frog and Goat turn a simple game into an all-out competition, things get out of hand...until finally, they're over it"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mustache Baby volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
A play date goes awry when Baby Billy and his mustache meet Baby Javier and his beard.
Author
Series
League of griefers volume 5
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When skeletons corner Noah and Violet, the duo escapes through a portal to the Nether. Trouble brews as Noah accidentally leaves the portal open and the mobs from the Overworld enter the Nether. Noah and Violet must battle hostile mobs from both worlds to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Poplar kids volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A friendly neighborhood business competition between sixth-graders Rachel Chambers, so quiet she is practically invisible, and Peter S. Gronkowski, future mogul, turns into a ruthless rivalry.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Zack and Drake venture to Gluco, the candy planet, for some Easter fun but while competing in such activities as an egg toss and a three-legged race, Zack is so determined to come in first that he considers cheating to win.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. Both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. Whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship-and only one can win. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's journals, this hilarious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Just once, Frank Pearl would like to win at something! He is going to win a prize if it's the last thing he does. Could an amazing yo-yo trick or Cookie the parrot land him a prize? Could a blue ribbon be his at the Great Third-Grade Breakfast Bash? With three shots at a prize and Judy Moody cheering him on (sort of?), there's no way that Frank can miss out on a trophy this time" -- from publisher's web site.
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