Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.
Fifth-grader Ben Riddle is a brown belt in karate, but when the school bully starts hassling him, Ben must look within himself to learn his true strength.
Square Beak, famous for the beautiful and unusual eggs she lays, abandons an egg-laying contest the other chickens expect her to win and returns to the life she loves, traveling and dreaming.
A friendly competition between Fiona and Madison, and Egg and Chet to see who can design the best Web site, results in Egg getting so angry he threatens to bow out of their friendship.
Elsa is working as a counselor at Green Spring Pony Club's summer camp, preparing the girls for a regional competition, when one of the horses is sabotaged and she must call on Nancy Drew for help.
The sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Neil Flamb?'s skills as a world-class chef leads to the closing of his restaurant, a cook-off to save his reputation, and the discovery of a dark curse that has plagued Flamb? cooks for centuries.
Castigated for defying tradition and playing an original tune on his Splingtwanger, thirteen-year-old Sprocc leaves Planet Bipp in search of musical freedom and enters the annual Worst Band in the Universe Competition. Includes a CD of songs supposedly recorded by the bands in the story.
