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Turn the tables

When James, Ana, Colin, and Maiv learn that the "contest" they have entered is actually an elaborate, illegal plot, they team up to take down the Benefactor and end the contest for good.

Stay in the game

Desperate for money to pay for an experimental treatment that could save his ill grandfather's life, high school senior James enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars if he completes ten secret tasks assigned by the Benefactor.

Raise the stakes

At first Colin thought being in the Contest was the only way to help his transgender sister get the surgery she needs. The prize is ten million dollars, but more and more the Benefactor's tasks make Colin wonder if he is actually taking part in something shady. He wants out, but trying to get out may be just as dangerous as the tasks themselves.

Break the code

Model student Maiv needs money for college and for her family so she enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars if she completes ten secret tasks assigned by the Benefactor. Maiv knows the contest is dangerous, but she's determined to find a way to win before it's too late.

Beat the odds

Trying to find money so that she and her little sister can escape their abusive foster parents, Ana enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars if she completes ten secret tasks assigned by the Benefactor. Ana doesn't realize that the contest could be more dangerous than the situation she's trying to escape.

La corona

2017
"Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a selection of her own"--Provided by publisher.

La heredera

2017
"Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought"--OCLC.

Science fair sabotage

"Twelve-year-old twins Hayden and Jaden, and their older friends Keisha and Carlos, call themselves Snoops, Inc., and consider it their business to catch criminals and investigate crimes--so when someone sabotages several of the projects in the sixth-grade science fair competition they set out to expose the culprit"--Provided by publisher.

Court of Fives

When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.

The ballad of songbirds and snakes

2020
"Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games"--OCLC.

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