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"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan...
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Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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"It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
3) Powerless
Author
Series
Powerless trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic and sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Welcome to the exciting world of Keijo, the new sport craze with girl-on-girl battles! On the rigorous journey to going pro, 18-year-old Nozomi Kaminashi asspires to be the best, putting in the hard yards with other talented girls at Setouchi Keijo Training School. This year’s rookies may be turning heads, but if Nozomi wants to become a real prize queen, she’ll have to put her butt on the line to perfect one of the most dangerous moves in the...
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
7) Stanleyville
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A dissatisfied woman abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Class 1-A made a name for themselves after facing The League of Villains, but an even greater challenge is about to begin. These young heroes will now fight students from other classes in the world's biggest Quirk competition, the U.A. sports festival. With dreams at stake and friends turning to adversaries, Deku will give everything he has got in his grand debut as the world's next symbol of peace.
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Series
Scorched throne volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad fled a massacre that takes her entire family. At fifteen, she buried her first body. At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia's third attempt at home. Nizahl's armies have laid waste to Jasad and banned magic across the four remaining kingdoms. Fortunately, Sylvia's magic is as good at playing dead as she is. When the Nizahl Heir tracks a group of Jasadis to Sylvia's village, the quiet life she's crafted unravels....
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Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 27
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Summer is here, and the heroes of Class One-A and One-B are in for the toughest training camp of their lives! A group of seasoned pros pushes everyone's Quirks to new heights as the students face one overwhelming challenge after another. Braving the elements in this secret location becomes the least of their worries when routine training turns into a critical struggle for survival.
12) Beauty queens
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
13) Lightlark
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears. Its purpose: to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The Centennial offers...
14) Spin the dawn
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Disguising herself as a boy to compete for the position of imperial tailor, Maia must somehow complete the impossible task of sewing three magic gowns for the emperor's bride-to-be from the sun's laughter, the moon's tears, and the blood of stars.
As a girl, Maia Tamarin's dreams of becoming a tailor are hopeless. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. Her life...
15) The heir
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
16) The Selection
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Publisher
Imagine & Wonder
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Myra is a 2nd grader with dreams of winning the school art contest and the adoration of the world. Judging from the grownups’ reactions, it looks like Myra’s dream is about to come true. Or is it? A funny, Almost True story about what happens when adults forget how to think like a kid. The day of the school’s art contest is here, and Myra can’t contain her excitement because this year she’s in it to win it! After many tries, she creates...
Author
Series
Endgame volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Twelve teens who have prepared their entire lives for an ancient life-or-death game must finally come to terms with its arrival, forming tenuous alliances and kiling each other for the chance to be the last one standing and the winner of the ultimate prize: the ability to save a select group of people from the end of the world"--
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