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The Hunger Games

2009
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Electric dreams

one unlikely team of kids and the race to build the car of the future
2004
Recounts the true story of a group of rural North Carolina high school students who entered a high-tech contest and, against all odds, build an award-winning electric car.

Cheating lessons

a novel
2002
When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved.

Mallory and Mary Ann take New York

2013
When Mallory wins Fashion Fran's design contest, she and Mary Ann are headed to New York City! But as they share the sights, sounds, and tastes of New York, there's just one problem. Only Mallory gets to appear on the Fashion Fran show, even though she pinky-swore with Mary Ann that they'd both go on. Can Mallory find a way to share the spotlight with her best friend before the pinky-swear she made ruins the trip of a lifetime--and their friendship?.

Case of the topsy-turvy toy

2011
Nine-year-old Pete and eleven-year-old Penny Pizzarelli help their friends, toy shop owners Rupert and Eliott Jest, solve puzzles as part of a contest at the annual toy fair, but someone is trying to stop them.

A dash of magic

a Bliss novel
2013
"Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss and her siblings track down magical ingredients in Paris so Rose can compete in a baking challenge against her evil aunt and win back the family's magical cookbook"--Provided by publisher.

Horrible Harry and the scarlet scissors

2012
The kids in Room 3B are asked to draw posters of things that they love, and one of them will get to share his or her poster on TV.

Look at Lucy!

2009
Entering his beagle, Lucy, in a contest to be "spokespet" for Pet-O-Rama helps shy, nine-year-old Bobby get over his anxiety about speaking in front of groups of people, from his third-grade classmates to the contest judges.

No talking

2008
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

The fall of Fergal, or, Not so dingly in the Dell

2005
The McNally children have strange adventures when they check into The Dell Hotel for the finals of the Tap-n-Type typing competition.

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