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The munched-up flower garden

2006
Liz works hard on her flower garden, hoping to win a blue ribbon at the annual Troublesome Creek picnic, but she wakes up on the morning of the picnic to find that her flowers have been eaten by a goat.

Skin deep

2009
Four gorgeous, very different girls share the same dream: becoming a model. It looks so glamorous: the clothes, the hair, the make-up. But there's hard work involved and, this summer at Top Model Prep, they'll learn that even their best friends can become the biggest competition.

Empires of light

Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world
2004
Presents a history of the race to create an electrical empire featuring Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.

The emperors of chocolate

inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars
2000

The king and the seed

2009
Old King Karnak holds an unusual competition to find an heir to the throne, asking all the men in the land to grow one seed to determine who is worthy enough to be king.

Tom Clancy's power plays

2003
Roger Gordian, owner of telecommunications company UpLink, resorts to a little corporate espionage to try and beat his biggest competitor, Armbright Industries, but when some of his own employees begin to disappear, Roger begins to suspect Armbright is trying to hide a deadly secret.

Bone

Rose
1995
Fone Bone and Smiley return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains and discover Rock Jaw, a giant mountain lion whose big ambitions bring him face-to-face with monstrous competition.

Lester Fizz

bubble-gum artist
2008
Everyone in the Fizz family is an artist. Everyone, that is, except Lester, whose paintings are pitiful and doodles are drab. He can't seem to find a way to fit in with the illustrious Fizzes, until one day a mouthful of gum becomes a work of art in Lester's talented lips.

Competing for the future

1996
A guide for business managers that explains how to be competitive at a conceptual, industry level, stressing the importance of innovation to business survival.

Breaking the ice

1998
Nikki is admitted into a prestigious ice skating club where the competition is really tough and one of the other skaters considers Nikki a threat to her status.

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