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In a snow-cloaked kingdom, two rival servants--one who desperately wants to win the approval of the Red Jaga and the other who hopes to escape the Black Jaga--compete for the pure heart of a prince, only to discover they might be falling for each other instead. Includes author's note.
3) Ride away
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Corrigan brothers volume 1
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English
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"Deed Corrigan earned his reputation as a gunfighter-- the hard way. But now, after forging cattle trails and fighting off the Comanche, he's setting his sights on a brighter future. With the help of his older brother Blue, a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle, Deed turns the Rafter C homestead into a successful, working cattle ranch. But when a land-grubbing banker tries to wipe out the competition-- slaughtering ranchers, robbing farmers,...
4) On guard
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Trey Smith, the captain of the Wildcats, knows he's one of the best players on the team. He doesn't worry about anything when he's on the court. But then he finds out that he knows someone on a rival team. It's his cousin, Pete. And to make matters worse, they're assigned to guard each other. How can Trey play when he'll have to beat his cousin to win?
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
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"Anita Bedford needs to face reality. It's time to decaffeinate the dream that she and Tanner will ever be more than friends. Growing up in small-town Maple Falls, she's had a crush on Tanner for years. But he'll only ever see her as good, old, dependable Anita. Now she's finally ready to make her own goals a reality. In fact, that deserted building next door to Sunshine Diner looks like a promising location to open her own cafe. Tanner Castillo may...
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Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
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The author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to challenge how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, and to fundamentally reshape the way we think about suffering and adversity.
This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles...
11) Dino-Boarding
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete in surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding events.
12) Out of bounds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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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.
13) Unschooled
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Fifth graders George and Lilly are best friends, but when they end up leading separate teams competing for the Spirit Week prize, it puts a strain on their friendship, especially when the competition generates a host of nasty pranks designed to sabotage their teams--and if Principal Klein finds out what is going on, Spirit Week will be canceled and everybody concerned will spend the rest of the year in detention.--Provided by Publisher.
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Mustache Baby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
A play date goes awry when Baby Billy and his mustache meet Beard Baby.
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Series
League of griefers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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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"--
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League of griefers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"In this first installment in a new series for Minecrafters, Noah and Violet have to battle the League of Griefers, including the tricky and powerful rainbow griefers"--
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Pepper party volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
When Maria's family embarrasses her while she tries to win her tryout to be the school mascot, she decides she wants to leave the Pepper pack permanently.
18) Power play
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.
20) Boxitects
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meg goes to Maker School to hone her talent for building with boxes, but when Simone, another boxitect, arrives they become so competitive they nearly fail in the annual Maker Match." --
"A STEAM-centered, adorably illustrated picture book about Meg, a brilliant and creative boxitect who creates extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard boxes. Meg is a brilliant and creative boxitect. She loves impressing her teacher and classmates with what...
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