competition (psychology)

Follows Ryoma Echizen as he tries for the all-Japan junior high school tennis championship.

In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.

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 more complicated.

A showdown ensues between the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, who always works alone, when young Veda loses her second tooth the day before Easter.

"Beth Harmon, orphaned at age eight, insists that the janitor teach her how to play chess and from then on her entire life is changed"--OCLC.

"Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She's charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual. Trapped in a shared office together forty (ok, fifty or sixty) hours a week, they've become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There's the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can't let Joshua beat her at anything especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. If Lucy wins this game, she'll be Joshua's boss. If she loses, she'll resign"--Provided by publisher.

"Sport psychologist and performance consultant Dr. Stan Beecham ... takes you inside the minds of major-league athletes, Olympic medal winners, and world-class business leaders to reveal the key motivators and mental processes that drive people to victory ... [Includes] power-boosting mental exercises, positive attitude adjusters, and inspiring true stories of individual success ... [to help you] to set your goals, sharpen your focus, and achieve your personal best"--Provided by publisher.

Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.

Dewey loves to draw and wants to enter the soccer team logo contest, but he does not want to win the grand prize--being team captain.

An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, on the First (and last) Annual Culvert Prep Middle School Scavenger Hunt For Charity, and the adventures of twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper as their highly competitive teams scour New York for treasure.