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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game."--
Author
Series
Team Chu volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game"--
3) Long shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. With her moms fighting at home, the store has become a welcome escape. When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna sees an opportunity to get her car fixed. The only person standing in her way? New hire Jake Kaplan. He doesn't even read! But somehow his sales start to rival hers. Jake may be cute, and he may be an eligible Jewish...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
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
Simon & Schuster Libros para ni©łos
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Olivia sells cookies for her Young Pioneers troop, she hopes her lucky tights help her to sell more boxes of cookies than Francine.
℗¿Podr©Ł Olivia vender m©Łs galletas que Francine este a©ło? A lo mejor s©Ư, ℗Łsi lleva sus mallas de la buena suerte!
Author
Series
Magnificent Mya Tibbs volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frustated with being the middle child in her family, Mya begins a school newspaper, but when the project gives her nemesis Naomi Jackson a chance to prove that she is a better friend to two of Mya's friends who are twins, Mya again finds herself in the middle.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
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.
13) The Golden Acorn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Golden Nut Hunt race becomes a team event, will speedy Squirrel's competitive spirit take over, or will she learn how to be a team player?
14) I'm on it!
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"--
15) Force out
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"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"--Provided by publisher.
16) Top elf
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dana and the rest of the Raiders gymnastics team believe that hard work and practice are the way to win--so how will they fare against the Superiors, a team with a reputation for dirty play and cheating?
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chuck the woodchuck is a skilled sculptor in wood, and he has won the Best of the Forest art contest three years in a row, but this year he faces a serious challenge from a newcomer, Scooter Possum.
19) Lost in the end
Author
Series
Lost Minecraft journals volume 3
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Harriet, Jack, and Toby follow the second lost journal into the dangerous Nether, hoping to rescue William the Explorer from the fiery biome"--
20) Caster
Author
Series
Caster (Elsie Chapman) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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.