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Junie B. Jones series volume 16
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As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events.
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Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
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Comeback kids volume 5
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Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
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Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship, but her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.
10) Pod racer
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A gamer interested in winning at any cost is placed on a four-player team consisting of the gaming crew he abandoned to pursue solo racing, but will he be able to work with the others in this virtual reality racing game?
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Junie B. Jones series volume 19
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First grader Junie B. Jones is determined to win the grand prize at wealthy classmate Lucille's Easter egg hunt--a playdate in Lucille's heated swimming pool.
14) Field of peace
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Everyday zoo volume 2
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A zoo animal baseball team learns that it is better to please God than to win.
15) Bubble trouble
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"Rueben the rabbit and Felix the beaver are best friends with one favorite activity--blowing bubbles, and the bigger, the better. But things start to go wrong after Rueben challenges Felix to a bubble-blowing contest and the two friends become each other's competition. When they sabotage each other's bubble machines, the results are disastrous. It's time to stop fighting against each other and pull together"--
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"Across a range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak's assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving-often at the same time. In One More Thing, a boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins -...
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Franklin School friends volume 4
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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.
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When wide receiver Ethan drops a touchdown pass and his team loses the game, he starts to doubt his own abilities, but as the next game approaches he realizes that he has to do what his father and coaches are telling him to do--stop obsessing about failure and get back to playing confident football.