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English
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For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
9) Número uno
Author
Publisher
Abrams books for young readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Tired of listening to strong Hercules and smart Socrates constantly argue over who is more important to their village, the townspeople devise a test to settle the question once and for all.
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dominic, Chris, Perry, Tilt, Sammi, Bryn, and Cameron compete with each other to be selected as part of a team of teenage climbers with the goal of ascending Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Elephant leads a troupe of monkeys into a cave they have been afraid to explore, and after admiring the paintings found on the walls they make their own art with mud, squabbling over whose painting is best until Elephant explains that this is not a game to win or lose.
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Language
English
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
Series
Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kane Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While Milo and Jazz, detectives-in-training, are at summer camps on the same lake, the mascot built by Milo's team for the color wars disappears.
15) Excellent Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, that she is good at something.
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Series
Sleepover squad volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the members of the Sleepover Squad plan a slumber party to play with Taylor's new kitten, the boy next door turns it into a boy-against-girl challenge. Includes suggestions for a slumber party project.
17) Saturn run
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Language
English
Description
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope -- something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so...
18) Miss Matched: #2
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Finkelstein does not get along with Milo, a new student in her Ordinary, Maryland, fourth-grade class, and when he starts a meteorology club she responds by trying to start a matchmaking club.
19) Shipped: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she's shortlisted for the promotion of her dreams, all her sacrifices finally seem worth it. The only problem? Graeme Crawford-Collins, the remote social media manager and the bane of her existence, is also up for the position. Although they've never met in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Zoe's status as best advice-giver at Allencroft Middle School is in jeopardy when sixth-grader Devon Sweeney begins to take over, and until she finds out what is really going on in Devon's life, Zoë will do just about anything to regain her exalted place in the school hierarchy.
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