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62) Squint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Description
Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
63) Geekerella
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Geek girl Ellie hopes to go to ExcelsiCon Cosplay to meet the actor (closet nerd Darien) scheduled to play Federation Prince Carmindor in a reboot of the movie Starfield.
Author
Language
English
Description
After she is injured in a gang shooting, seventeen-year-old Alexis Duncan's dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish, but, encouraged by new student Aamani Chakrabarti, Alexis shifts her focus to the school's STEM quiz bowl team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own futures outside of West Philly.
Author
Series
Next Best Junior Chef volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Follows Tate, Rae, Caroline, and Oliver, ages nine to eleven, both on and off-camera as they compete in a televised cooking competition. Includes cooking tips.
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 04
Language
English
Description
The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp where they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition.
Author
Series
This dark descent volume 01
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Description
Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
69) The heat is on
Author
Series
Next Best Junior Chef volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
The competition heats up in episode two of this zesty series for fans of kids' cooking competitions! With this episode's theme of family and tradition, from a diner challenge to a quinceañera to the farmer's market, the junior chefs will have to sauté their way through the chewiest challenges yet. They're the best in the nation, but can they handle the twists and turnovers week two has in store, on- and off-camera? Which junior chefs can stand...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid, Zeke Stahls decides to give it his best shot but soon finds himself wondering what "great" really means and who gets to decide"--WorldCat.
Author
Series
Magnificent Mya Tibbs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As she awaits the arrival of a new baby sister, Mya is cornered into a bet with her enemy that forces her to spend every night studying and enters a chili cook-off despite her limited culinary skills.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Britt Hanson embarks on a competitive scavenger hunt in England that takes her to the locations of classic British novels--and along the way, she meets a bookish British boy who is not allowed to help her with the clues but might make the trip take some unexpected turns." --
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they...
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Koral and her brother, Emrik, risk their lives to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. They have to, or else their family will starve. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the ruling elite have indentured her family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. The winner receives gold and glory. The losers - if they're...
77) The Luminaries
Author
Series
Luminaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for."--
Author
Series
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
"Lark and Connor are judges for the annual baking contest at the community center. When they arrive, they discover that someone has destoyed a contestant's entry. And not just any contestant's--Sophie's! Sophie is Lark's best friend (she just doesn't know it yet). The twin sleuths can't simply roll with it. To save the contest, they'll have to take a risk and start investigating the other contestants. With the timer ticking, Lark and Connor have to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Nikki Maxwell isn't at all surprised to find out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter. He's such a sweet guy -- of course he wants to help those adorable puppies! Then Brandon tells her that the shelter is in danger of closing, and Nikki can't let that happen. Especially when she discovers a secret about Brandon that makes keeping that shelter open more important than ever. Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Horrid Henry builds a big, mean monster snowman in order to win the snowman competition against Moody Margaret's ballerina snowgirl, and claim the prize - a year's supply of ice cream - all for himself.
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