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When their arch-rivals get a new coach--and an entirely new team--mid-season, basketball team captain Jim and his best friend Ali do some investigating that uncovers a sinister plot.

The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.

Emily paints four pictures and enters one in the first-grade art contest, but the judge interprets Emily's entry as a rabbit instead of a dog.

Ernie and the other Martian club members hope to win the school contest by solving clues about the environment, which will allow them to appear as Green Magicians in the class play.

For Halloween, Bernie Bridges and Sherman Oaks are making scary movies, and the winner of the scariest one will get to star in a genuine horror film.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

Conor, Timmy, and Jack enter the local Halloween costume contest when Billy Bob Bidness announces it on TV, but they have to solve a mystery when their costumes disappear before the contest begins.

Sam knows there is going to be trouble at the Bailey School Field Day when the Tucker triplets get geared up to compete against each other.

The girls from Camp Lakeview keep in touch through a blog as Priya deals with a science fair project, Alyssa fights for the chance to be featured in an arts magazine, Val vies for a spot in a dance recital, and a Tori attracts the attention of the son of one of her father's clients.

At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a student council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.