competitions

A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys versus girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.

Text and photographs look at eSports, focusing on how the tournaments work, teams and players, prizes, and more.

Fourteen-year-old Storm Hall lives to sing. Forget parties. Forget boys. When Storm is told she's going to miss a national competition, to go on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday to Hawaii, her life is OVER. What could be worse than having to give up singing to visit an island paradise? What if her (former) best friend is taking her place? A family trip to Hawaii is just the beginning. Storm meets a Hawaiian band who needs a singer last minute. When the song is on local radio the next day all of Storm's dreams are coming true until the band introduces their singer on air. It's NOT her.

Second grader Kylie Jean joins her school art club, and learns to paint in the style of several different artists, but for the Mural Art Contest she decides to paint a watercolor picture of a local Texas barn and duck pond--until a squabble between her dog and the ducks turns it into an example of abstract art instead.

Brie and the rest of the dancers at Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance are on their way to Florida to compete in the Citrus Jam which is held just outside of Orlando, and where first place includes the opportunity to march in the Main Street Parade at Disney World--but the team from Austin, Texas, includes some girls who are planning to sabotage the other competitors.

Explores the history of hobby and competition robots, such as racing drones, and those amateur hobbyists develop to take to competitions. Discusses the history of robotics, noting important milestones in hobby and competition robotics, and the challenges inherit to the process. Includes critical thinking questions, a glossary, sources for further information, and an index.

A smooth-talking businessman tries to convince Strawberry Shortcake to expand her bakery and she tries to sort out her decision in dreamland in the middle of a tense mystery.

Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are eager to enter Berry Bitty City's annual baking contest, but when Lemon Meringue waits until the last minute to start baking, she fears her recipe will not be good enough to win.

Team Earth is gearing up for the Galaxy Games' oldest and most prestigious event: a game with no real rules. The Gamatron is an ancient test of strength, endurance, agility, and strategy played on the Martian moon Phobos. It's tricky enough to play without clear rules, but their opponents are the dreaded Klaxians, known for being the most skilled cheaters in the universe. How can the Earthlings play a clean game against a team of scoundrels?.

Ever since she broke her wrist longboarding, Valeria has been reluctant to get back on her board, but now she has been asked to teach Chloe, the new girl in Harlow Springs, Colorado, the art of downhill longboarding and get her ready in time for the upcoming race.