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Mr. Lemoncello's fantabulous finale

2024
Thirteen-year-old Kyle participates in the last of Mr. Lemoncello's fantabulous games with the hopes of winning ownership of the entire Lemoncello empire.
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The Revenant Games

2024
"Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in an uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the truce dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games. Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. The witches will raise one person from the dead for whoever captures the highest-ranking vampire. The vampires offer immortality to whoever captures the most powerful witch. For most humans, the games are a ticket out of poverty. For Bly, it's a chance to get back her dead sister, Elise, and save her dying best friend, Emerson. Together, she and Emerson forge a dangerous plan to play both sides and win both prizes: resurrection for Elise and immortality for Emerson. But when the vampire they capture stirs a passion in Bly that she hasn't felt in a long time, she'll have to make a choice: her sister or the boy who's shown her there's more to life than just survival"--Provided by publisher.
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Lone wolf gets a pet

2024
Grumpy Wolf wants jellybeans, and it seems that the only way he can get some is to win the local Best Pet Competition, but first he has to find a pet who will cooperate.
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Wild about you

2024
"Indoorsy theater girl Natalie must team up with surly nature-lover Finn in an Amazing Race-style reality competition show set in the Appalachian wilderness--if they do not kill (or kiss!) each other first"--Provided by publisher.
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The problem with gravity

2023
Autistic seventh-grader Maggie is ecstatic to work with her crush, eighth-grader Tatum, for an engineering contest, but both girls must confront their complicated family dynamics and expectations before acknowledging their feelings for each other.

The Luminaries

(Fantasy)
2023
"Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for"--Provided by publisher.

Helck

In a world where humans and demons are locked in opposition to one another, a human kills the reigning demon lord. When a tournament is announced to choose a replacement, a human named Helck enters, claiming he hates his own kind and promising to lead the demons against them. Most are opposed to his rule, including red-haired Vermilio.

[Lehendarium]

2023
"Arthur, Ren and Cecily are stuck in Legendarium in the year 2493, where the secretive villain Deadlock has discovered dangerous time-travel technology. To save the universe, the friends must enter the deadly Irontide Tournament, where legends are real and one wrong move could cost them their lives"--OCLC.

The underdogs of Upson Downs

2024
Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.

Guava and grudges

2024
Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a pastry chef. She loves developing new and exciting Cuban-fusion treats in her family's bakery, but her dad refuses to change the menu created by her abuelo decades ago-meanwhile, the rival bakery across the street, Morales Bakery, is thriving with their Instagram-famous desserts. Ana Maria's only hope to change her dad's mind and save up for culinary school is winning a recipe competition with a social media angle. But then the ultimate distraction shows up in her small town: Miguel, a boy she spent one magical day with six months ago, and who she never thought she'd see again. Ana Maria thinks maybe fate has brought them together again-until she learns the horrible truth. Miguel is a Morales. An Ybarra cannot be associated with a Morales, let alone fall for one. But when she finds out Miguel is behind the Moraleses' viral success and he offers to help her with the competition, she is so desperate to win she can't turn him down. All she needs to do is keep Miguel at arm's length and make sure their families don't find out. After all, teaming up with Miguel is just business and nothing more?right?.

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