competition

A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.

A collection of four children's novels in which the girls of the Claymore Middle School cheerleading team deal with the challenges of school, boys, and the squad.

Shorty was one of the best pool players around, but that was not enough for him, unless he could beat the Parson.

When her father loses his job, thirteen-year-old Ellen and her family are forced to move from the suburbs to her grandmother's in the city. Ellen does not expect to have anything in common with the street-smart city kids until her old school and new school are in fierce competition with each other.

A former bobsled champion forms the first ever Jamaican bobsled team to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Farmer Boast, Farmer Bluster, and Farmer Smart fight over who has the best cornfield, until one of them finds a way to win the competition.

Steven Edwards, stuck playing defense on a team with the coach's mean-spirited son, knows he is going to have to work hard to get a break.

Rod resents Ernesto for stealing everything he worked so hard to achieve, like being elected senior class president, and he decides to take revenge by making Ernesto's life miserable.

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

The showdown between the Hooded One and the people of the valley begins. Thorn and Phoney Bone seem to be at the center of the maelstrom. Will they survive the Hooded One's sacrificial ceremony?.