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Learn about the athletes, officials, and fans involved in putting on the sports event that brings together hundreds of countries around the world.

"A photo-illustrated book for beginning readers that tells the story of a lawn mower race."--Publisher.

Marvin, a dorky eight-year-old who takes karate to try and be cool, enters a competition and learns he will be competing against Tokiko, a nine-year-old with great skills and on whom he has a crush.

Katie, who has never cooked a thing alone, switches into Louie the chef at a pizza parlor sponsoring a pizza-eating contest.

The Killer Zucchini just heard that Mr. Farnsworth - the judge - loves zucchinis. Certainly this means he should be Mr. F.'s friend, right? Wrong! Soon the Killer Zucchini realizes that Mr. F. actually likes to eat zucchinis. A vendetta begins.

Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.

Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.

Finn has always heard that the Finers, a family living alone at the tip of Clee Point, are to be avoided because of some long-ago incident that no one will discuss, but when Davey Finer saves Finn's life, he begins to learn more and, in defiance of his parents, befriend them.

When her school library holds a fundraiser, the imaginative Babymouse is determined to sell the most cupcakes and win the grand prize.