competition (psychology)

Dana is looking forward to her first competition and is counting on winning lots of ribbons, but then a talented new girl named Amanda comes to Coach Jody's gym, and Dana must learn an important lesson about being a part of a team.

Her carelessness during a science experiment at school prompts Alison to visit the magic attic where she learns that she doesn't need to be first in everything.

A number of teens describe the pros and cons of competition; and offers a survival guide on maintaining a positive attitude while being competitive.

Cal became a hero as the only seventh-grader on his middle school football team, but now his former teammates are in high school and a popular new player is challenging him for the quarterback position by turning the coach and other players against Cal.

Although sixteen-year-old Sophie has grown up working in her family's Mediterranean restaurant in Washington, D.C., she is not prepared to compete on the new reality show, Teen Test Kitchen, when her best friend Alex convinces her to audition. Includes recipes.

Years after five children mysteriously disappeared from cities across Europe, they reappear at an exclusive party in New York City under the tutelage of a suspicious benefactor, but their unique gifts--reading minds, stopping time, seducing with false beauty, and more--begin to bring them more consequences then benefits.

While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.

Describes the difference between cats and dogs, in simple text with illustrations, as a cat and a dog have a good-natured argument about which animal is better.

After having competed with each other in everything and been outwitted by Methuselah, best friends Ivan and Olaf finally find something on which they can cooperate.

Since her older brother always wins at ping pong, checkers, and everything else, Amy decides to learn riddles in hope of finding some way she can beat him.