Catalog Search Results
1) On guard
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trey Smith, the captain of the Wildcats, knows he's one of the best players on the team. He doesn't worry about anything when he's on the court. But then he finds out that he knows someone on a rival team. It's his cousin, Pete. And to make matters worse, they're assigned to guard each other. How can Trey play when he'll have to beat his cousin to win?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old friends Ted and Ashley are finally old enough to go to Kart Kamp in the summer, where they meet Gil Stevens, son of a famous driver, but soon Ted's competitive instincts start to get the better of him, and camp becomes less about learning than winning.
4) Caster
Author
Series
Caster (Elsie Chapman) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aza Wu knows that casting magic can kill--it killed her sister--but she needs money desperately to pay off Saint Willow, who controls her sector of Lotusland, and save the family teahouse, so she secretly enters an underground casting tournament--and finds herself competing against other castors with "full magic," and where even victory could cause her to lose her freedom, her magic, and her life.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Language
English
Description
Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. To win, not only does Raymie have to do good deeds and learn how to twirl a baton; she also has to contend with the wispy, frequently fainting...
6) Second shot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot run he can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...
8) Force out
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
11) Sports camp
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Riley Liston tries to fit in at Camp Olympia, a summer sports camp where he is one of the youngest boys.
12) Sweet Buttercup
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While staying at their grandmother's ranch, sisters Tori and Miranda are practicing to compete in different events at the local horse show--but Ashley, a rude and conceited girl who is stabling her pony at the ranch, is constantly criticizing everthing, their costumes, their ponies, Jewel and Buttercup, and generally draining the fun out of the summer.
13) Deck the halls
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
14) Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Yusei Fudo and his friend Sect participate in the New Domino City Turbo Duel, meet the urban legend, Skeleton Knight, and are the target for Jack Atlas' sinister plans.
15) Mia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mia has grown up playing ice hockey with her three older brothers on the pond beyond their house. She's got the skills and scrappiness needed to become a star hockey player, but Mia's tired of skating in her brothers' shadows and has decided to pursue her passion for figure skating instead. But does she have what it takes to compete as a figure skater?"
"When a new coach arrives to take over the skate club, Mia finds herself gently pushed by the...
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 7
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For having skipped the school field trip, Dee, Hector, and Terrence must join the mathletes team, but as they are poised to beat the undefeated champions, secret crime fighter Lunch Lady discovers something strange about the opposing team.
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In New Domino City, the hottest game in town is the Turbo Duel. Fought from blazingly fast motorcycles called duel runners. On the outskirts of New Domino City, in a district know as Satellite, a new Turbo Duel hero emerges -- Ysei Fudo! On his custom-buit Duel Runner. Ysei takes on all challengers. Fighting for his friends and the future of Satellite!