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Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying...

Sixth-grade class clown Jeffrey Holiwell enters a writing contest after he discovers an invisible talking cat in his room.

When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.

Paddington and Mr. Gruber enter the Busy Bee Adventure Trail contest and suspect that someone is copying their efforts.

Relates how two cats living on Cuckoo Square help their owners get rid of an unwelcome cousin and enter an art contest.

Mrs. Frizzle's class challenges Mr. Order's class to a science contest, where the topic of the contest is magnetism.