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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.
2) Unschooled
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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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Pepper party volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
4) Power play
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
5) The pet war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Otto wants a dog, and his older sister Lexi wants a cat, so their mother suggests that whoever can raise enough money to pay for their pet can choose--and so the competition begins.
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Boris (Andrew Joyner) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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School field day is coming up and Boris and his friends are practicing hard because they are determined not to let Eddie win again, but on race day Boris is forced to choose between winning and friendship.
7) Caster
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Caster (Elsie Chapman) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Aza Wu knows that casting magic can kill--it killed her sister--but she needs money desperately to pay off Saint Willow, who controls her sector of Lotusland, and save the family teahouse, so she secretly enters an underground casting tournament--and finds herself competing against other castors with "full magic," and where even victory could cause her to lose her freedom, her magic, and her life.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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It is Gracie's first time at the Pig Jubilee with her synchronized swimming team, the Water Sprites, and she is the youngest pig with a chance to win a gold medal--the trouble is that she keeps getting distracted and missing her solo part, a triple spin dive.
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AV2 fiction readalong volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Hals Halson, who is nearly as tall as the legendary Paul Bunyan, strides into a logging camp determined to prove himself the greatest lumberjack in North America, despite Paul's attempts at friendship.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Ben's mother would like him to follow his best friend, Tanner, and join Chief Master Lisa Kleisch's tae kwon do studio, but Ben is loyal to his long-time instructor, Mr. Ronson; besides he really does not like what he sees of Lisa Kleisch's joyless technique--and when Tanner admits that he hates it at the new dojang, Ben is more determined than ever to prove that he can win with Mr. Ronson.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Twins Stacy and Gina Cavallaro are rivals on the baseball field, each pitching for a different little league team. Gina is a sports whiz and the star of her crack team, while Stacy's band of misfits hasn't won a game all season. The battling sisters also happen to be the youngest in a long line of local witches. So when Gina's magic spins out of control and her spell accidentally raises a zombie, the girls have to set aside their differences and figure...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Skylar Collins of Lovelace Academy intends to win at the Scholastic Exposition, (an extremely nerdy academic competition) using her latest app, which she considers a brilliant piece of coding; but first she has to assemble a team, and she will do anything to accomplish that, even if it means playing Cupid for teammates Joey and Zane--but her people skills are not as good as her coding, and when she starts to feel attracted to Zane things get even...
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English
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"Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show"--
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Tapper twins volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.
16) Force out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best ideas for school functions to which one will be their graduating class's valedictorian. However, in the twenty-four hours left they have as high school students, the two learn they share something much deeper than a rivalry"--
It's the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair, both overachievers, have been bitter rivals...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"'Tis the season for sleuthing in Donna Andrews' cheery new addition to the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series. Meg has been roped into participating in a blacksmithing competition, a kind of Forged in Fire wannabe organized by a blacksmith friend. Meg originally turned down his invitation to participate, but when Faulk, her blacksmithing mentor, breaks his wrist the night before filming begins, Meg agrees to step in as his replacement...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
Cross-country running is Stella Steckler's life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she has friends, goes to parties, has a life off the course. Their lives are upended when...
20) The takeover
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Sometimes, when you ask the universe for your soulmate, you wind up with your hate mate instead. On Nami's 30th birthday, she's reminded at every turn that her life isn't what she planned. She's always excelled at everything - until now. Her fianc©Øe blew up their engagement. Her pride and joy, the tech company she helped to found, is about to lose funding. And her sister, Sora, is getting married to the man of her dreams, Jack, and instead of...
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