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221) Pumpkin pie wars
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Ten years ago, Faye and Lydia each opened their own bakeries in Emeryville, Ohio, after a personal and professional fall-out during a local pumpkin pie contest. Now their children, and co-workers, Casey and Sam are set to carry on the rivalry as they go head-to-head in the same contest. There is only one problem from these two people who are supposed to hate each other, they start to fall in love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Charlie's the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikelyuntil Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class election campaign the school has ever seen. At stake? Student group funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms, but not both....
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Just Add Romance: When Carly and Jason, exact opposites, compete on a famed cooking show for the chance at their restaurant, what will matter more, their culinary careers or their potential love?
Love on the Menu: A chef makes a deal with a frozen food executive to save his restaurant.
224) War dance
Description
Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Mori Jin is a high school student and Taekwondo specialist who enters "The God of High School," a fighting tournament that promises the winner anything they want. What began as a competition to seek out the best high school fighter soon reveals itself to be part of a much greater plot that goes beyond Mori's wildest imagination. What will he give to become a true god? When an island half-disappears from the face of the earth, a mysterious organization...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After suffering a humiliating loss at the Grand Prix Final, Japan's number one skater, Yuri Katsuki, is ready to hang up his skates for good. But when his idol and five-time champion Victor Nikiforov offers to be his coach, Yuri's put on a trek for gold and to discover the true meaning of victory. Together, they'll face skaters from all around the world while discovering where their true feelings lie.
228) La corda d'oro
Series
La corda d'oro volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Kahoko may have a magic violin that gives her some technical ability, but the violin's true magic is only unlocked when Kahoko "feels" the music, something she's having trouble doing in the midst of all the new tension in her life. She's supposed to be getting to know her fellow competitors, but the first stage of the competition is coming soon, and she barely has time to pick her music, let alone make new friends. So why is she so drawn to her fellow...
229) Dare to be wild
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This is the true story of Mary Reynolds, a feisty landscape designer whose goal is to share the beauty of wild nature with the world. With the odds stacked against her, Mary enters the prestigious (and conservative) Chelsea Flower Show to execute a competition garden using only wild plants. To achieve her goal, she must enlist handsome botanist, Christy Collard, working in Ethiopia, and a rag-tag group of hippies to help her. From the iconic green...
230) Food wars!: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Ever since he was little, Soma Yukihira's main goals have been to beat his father in a cooking contest and take over the family diner. That's why, when his dad suddenly announces that he's shutting the restaurant down and sending Soma to cooking school, Soma is shocked. However, Tohtsuki Academy is no ordinary cooking school. This elite institution is filled with culinary giants like Erina Nakiri, who does her best to keep Soma from even making it...
231) Warrior
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns home and enlists his father, a recovering alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. Tommy's estranged brother Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to provide for his family as a public school teacher, also enters the competition. Set on a collision course with each other, the two brothers must finally confront...
232) Stomp the Yard
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
After the death of his younger brother, D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping,' an old traditional dance performed by African American fraternities and soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top...
233) Lifted
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Lifted is the story of Henry, a middle school student in Alabama, who finds refuge in music from the challenges of his surroundings: a drug addicted mother, a Reservist father recalled to active service in Afghanistan, the financial stress of a Reservist's pay, a racist, redneck grandfather, and bullying schoolmates. A singing competition provides Henry the vehicle for his personal triumph.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The Trimagicathlon--the event that will determine Mash's destiny--has finally begun! Easton and Walkis have sent their best into a spooky manor filled with scary spells and unimaginable curses. Enemies and allies alike find themselves scattered in this maze, and to make matters worse, Mash is quickly caught in a trap by Levis! Faced with the overwhelming magic supremacy of the students from Walkis, it's time for Lance and Dot to show what they're...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young fashionista Milly is excited to compete in a design contest, so when a strange custodian appears with an offer to help she accepts, but is wary of the catch: she must guess the mysterious person's own sewing project or give up the first-place prize.
Author
Series
Forever friends trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Four disparate high school seniors come together to compete in their school's battle of the bands. Sharing a love for playing rock and roll, the members name the band 'The Stereotypical Freaks' because they feel stereotyped by their classmates-- smart kid, geek, star athlete and quiet weirdo-- when in fact they know they are much more than those labels that have been placed on them. When one member reveals life altering news, winning the competition...
239) Let it shine
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Cyrus DeBarge learns that his old classmate and former crush-turned pop star Roxie is coming back for a local music show and Cyrus decides to use his music to tell her how he feels, but when someone else takes credit for Cyrus's song, he must find the courage to speak up for himself.
240) Bandslam
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
An unlikely trio comes together and forms a band to enter the country's biggest music competition.