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1) Big shot
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 52
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Description
Jack Johnson finds a book that tells how humans can learn to fly and hopes to use his knowledge to show-up his classmate Wilson Schlame; but when the news gets out that Jack can fly, things start to get out of hand and he questions whether flying is really the way to go.
Author
Series
Voyagers) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
Author
Series
Lowriders volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 430L
Language
English
Description
Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. you name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders - cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash - just what the team needs to open their own shop! ¡Ay chihuahua! What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action. If a firm successfully enters a new market, creates a new product, or designs new innovations for an existing product, it's just a matter of time before competitors follow suit. And the influx of competition inevitably places downward pressure on both price and profitability. But the speed at which competitors invade one's market...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past...
12) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a...
Author
Series
Studies in global competition volume 5
Publisher
Harwood Academic Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
16) The internship
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Trying to reboot their obsolete careers, old-school salesmen Billy and Nick talk their way into an internship program at the state-of-the-art Google campus, vying for a handful of spots among tech-savvy college students who are half their age and twice as smart. The competition is fiercely funny as Billy and Nick break all the rules in a hilarious quest to land their dream jobs.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Explores how organisms adapt to changing environments, from changes in physical appearance to adaptations in behavior, and examines the evolution of different plant and animal species.
20) BMX challenge
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Jason never turns down a dare, but when his classmates challenge him to a BMX competition Jason must learn to ride a BMX bike or this dare will be his last.