contests

Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero.

Darren begins the Trials of Initiation to prove himself worthy of being a half-vampire, even as the clan's blood foes, the vampaneze, gather near Vampire Mountain.

A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.

Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.

Determined to achieve fame by breaking several oddball world records in an upcoming contest, Arlo Moore and his friends practice fiendishly under the disapproval of parents and school principal.

Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his know-it-all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them on unaware friends and family.

In Manhattan, fifteen-year-old Pashmina forms her team for Fashion International High School's annual competition to design, produce, and show a fully original clothing line in hopes of winning a real chance at a career in fashion.

The design competition at Fashion International High School heats up as each design house struggles to produce its first line, provoking tensions among the friends at the House of Pashmina.

London Abrams, who loves volleyball, spots the attractive Brent St. John signing in contestants for a modeling competition at a store, and after getting in line to greet him, she finds herself entering the contest against fourteen desperate fashionistas.

Clifford enters a contest against an always perfect dog named Champ, and proves himself a champion.