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Author
Series
Aven Green volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Aven knows she's an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she's been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like her. She cracks eggs with her feet and measures sugar and flour with her feet (plus measuring cups) since she was born without arms. And now Aven has her eye on the prize: a beautiful blue ribbon for baking at the county fair. So she teams up with her friends Kayla, Emily, and Sujata. But It turns out they...
Author
Series
Sprinkle Sundays volume 12
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Supported by her friends, Sierra enters a local singing contest, but her confidence falters when she sees her talented competition.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, when she inherits a piece of land, Emma finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle's journal that tells the story of Livy Jones, the woman who piloted his plane when he fell ill, and, with new purpose, works to secure Livy's place in the aviation hall of fame.
44) Deadly delights
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"August in Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, always means one thing: the annual baking contest. Picture The Great British Baking Show, writ Midwestern. It's a huge draw for the upper crust of Wisconsin pastry aficionados. And, of course, bon vivant baker-turned-mystery writer Teddie St. John has a pie in the ring. The white vinyl baking tent boasts an array of folding tables housing each entrant's daily baked good. And at one of those tables sits the corpse...
45) Wonton terror
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lana Lee is all smiles when the first evening of Cleveland's Asian Night Market kicks off the summer. The weekly festival is always good for business, packed with locals and tourists, and this year, some stiff new food-truck competition. Wonton on Wheels, run by old friends of Lana's parents, promises to have customers lining up for their delicately wrapped delights--until the truck blows up at evening's end. Lana's boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With a few loyal friends in tow including her handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Cr©·me Br©{u00ac}l©♭e Zoe drives the Biscuit Bowl to Charlotte, North Carolina, to enter a nationally televised food truck race. The contest features challenges across the Southeast, and with a fifty-thousand-dollar grand prize, competition isńt just fierce, itś killer. As everyone gears up for the first challenge, another food trucker from Zoeś hometown...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City, and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it. When her hubby, police detective Nathan Bransford,...
48) Hip-hop hustle
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chery Etienne has her own hip-hop dance crew, but now some of them are moving away and she will have to try out for her middle school's hip-hop dance team, although since she has never had any formal training she is not sure her unique style will be welcome.
49) Jawbreaker
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile, a refreshingly honest middle-grade debut novel about toxic sibling rivalry, socioeconomic disparity, and dental drama. Max Plink’s life is complicated. Her parents aren’t getting along. The school bullies are relentless—and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Princess Odette is hosting a music competition to celebrate Princess Alise's birthday, the winner will sing at her grand birthday ball! Prince Li of Cathay has entered, but his sister Princess Mei Li has stowed away on his ship to seek help from Odette and Derek for Chen, who has been cursed to live as a dragon. Lucas and Alise are reunited, but Prince Li's arrival makes Alise doubt her feelings.
Author
Series
Book retreat mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, resort manager Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill. As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet's Walk,...
Author
Series
Fresh-baked mystery volume 12
Publisher
Fire Star Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The chili in Texas is red-hot ... and so is murder! Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians, and media. Raucous excitement fills the air, but so does chili when a sabotaged propane cooker explodes, killing the much-hated current champion. The victim leaves behind...
54) The karate mouse
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 40
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bruce Hyena and his cousin, Shorty Tao, enter Geronimo in the Karate World Championship, he has only one week to get into shape and learn karate.
55) A killer edition
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Booktown Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped. Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles...
56) Mocha, she wrote
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When pastry chef Juliet Capshaw's head barista at her restaurant, Torte, is suspected of murdering a contest judge, Juliet sets out to investigate and find the killer.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 158
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jessie and Benny are participating in the Great Greenfield Bake-Off, a local baking competition for kids. But ingredients get mixed up during the competition and then the power goes out. Is someone trying to put an end to the contest?" -- provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Country cooking school mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While preparing their students for the Southern Missouri Showdown, Betts and Gram, the owners of Gram's Country Cooking School, stumble upon the dead body of a local theater owner in their supply room and must serve up a killer before they take the fall for the crime.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follow twelve amateur bakers as they don aprons and head for the tent in the British countryside, hoping to be named Britain's best. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood create challenges to test their baking prowess, creativity, and skill. Joined by hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, they search for the best all-around baker among the contestants.
60) Freestyle
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a new tutor,...
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