Lucky Days With Mr. And Mrs. Green
Mr. and Mrs. Green, a loving alligator couple, make an attempt at being detectives, enter a gumball guessing contest, and sign up for the town talent show.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400
subjects: lost and found possessions, contests [X], talent shows, alligators, humorous stories, humorous fiction [X]
Stink And The World's Worst Super-stinky Sneakers
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 175
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: smell, contests [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction, stink, school fiction
Judy Moody Saves The World
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
FIC
year: 7222
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: fiction, moody, judy (fictitious character), environmental protection, brothers and sisters, schools, contests [X], virginia, moody, judy (fictional character), siblings, school stories, humorous stories, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction
Annie Pitts, Burger Kid
Third-grader Annie Pitts loves hamburgers and is determined to become the Burger Barn's next poster child.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: hamburgers, thanksgiving day, contests [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction [X], electronic books, pitts, annie (fictional character)
The Fast And The Furriest
The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: dogs, competition (psychology), football, contests [X], humorous fiction [X], football stories, fiction, juvenile works
Big Nate Goes For Broke
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 154
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
subjects: cartooning, contests [X], humorous stories, middle schools, schools, middle school students, snow sculpture, school stories, humorous fiction, graphic novels, cartoons and comics, humorous fiction [X], conduct of life, caricatures and cartoons, cartoonists, comic books, strips, etc
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman
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.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: horrid henry (fictitious character), human behavior, snowmen, contests [X], horrid henry (fictional character), snow, humorous fiction [X]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County
Presents an illustrated centennial edition of the story about a gambler who comes into possession of a talented frog by the name of Daniel Webster, which he boasts can vault further than any other of its kind in the county.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: frogs, contests [X], tall tales, compulsive gamblers, humorous stories, compulsive gambling, humorous fiction [X]
Gilda Joyce
When Gilda travels to a piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she investigates why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: piano performance, contests [X], ghosts, psychic ability, oxford (england), england, pianists, ghost stories, humorous fiction [X]
Big Nate On A Roll
Middle-schooler Nate Wright must compete with a new rival, the "perfect" Artur, for the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: middle school students, contests [X], scouting (youth activity), middle schools, scouts and scouting, school stories, humorous fiction [X], comic books, strips, etc, schools, humorous stories, cartoons and comics, humorous fiction, big nate, school fiction
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective, to solve the crime.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: bean, clarice (fictitious character), schools, contests [X], family life, humorous stories, family, mystery and detective stories, school stories, england, humorous fiction [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, families, mystery fiction
Amelia Bedelia Bakes Off
Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
I Even Funnier
"While on a mission to win the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic regional competition, New York middle schooler Jamie Grimm copes with rival comics and bullies, a buddy in trouble, and a sudden family emergency, all with a sense of humor and a loyal group of friends"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 139
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: comedians, contests [X], people with disabilities, bullies, middle schools, long beach (n.y.), humorous stories, schools, bullying, school stories, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction
Beauty Queens
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.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: beauty contests, airplane crash survival, castaways, contests [X], pirates, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, humorous fiction [X], humorous fiction
Almost Starring Skinnybones
Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national television.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: schools, humorous stories, school stories, humorous fiction [X], contests [X], audiobooks, humorous fiction, children's audiobooks