As twelve-year-old Brooklyn goes head-to-head against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with the death of her mother and help her try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.

Each year, for as long as the forest has stood, a contest is held for the bears of the wood... Fred is the champion. He's the best. But being the best takes time and training, especially when it comes to having the loudest growl. Then, one morning, disaster strikes -- Fred's GRRRRR is gone! Oh, no! Will Fred find his GRRRRR and realize that there's more to life than being a winner?

"Alice Fleck's father is a culinary historian, and for as long as she can remember, she's been helping him recreate meals from the past--a hobby she prefers to keep secret from kids her age. But when her father's new girlfriend enters them into a cooking competition at a Victorian festival, Alice finds herself and her hobby thrust into the spotlight. And that's just the first of many surprises awaiting her. On arriving at the festival, Alice learns...

When Tommy is sent to a special camp to make him into a "winner," he discovers that his fellow campers are competitive to the point of obsession, and that a particular teacher, Mrs. Maargh, takes winning very seriously.

In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.

"Jasper and Scruff's new diner, Paws Caf©♭, is a big success! The place is packed--until Lady Catterly opens her own place, the Sophisticaf©♭, right across the street. Determined not to be outdone, Jasper creates a fancy new menu, hoping to impress famous food critic Gaspard le Skunk. But the Sophisticats have heard about his visit and have cooked up a plan to sabotage the meal..."--

Ollie has always been happy just being an elf and inventing new games for Christmas with his best friend Celia--but then the current Santa (descendent of the original) decides to retire and announces that there will be an open competition for the position of next Santa (his son Klaus is not pleased) and suddenly Ollie and the other elves are vying with the Santa children for the Big Red Suit.

"Camp Average is a middle-grade novel that tells the story of a group of 11-year-old boys sharing Cabin 10 at a six-week summer sports camp for boys. The actual name of the place is Camp Avalon, but the kids call it Camp Average, because they never win at any sport. And that's the way they like it. But this summer, Winston, the new camp director, institutes Mandatory Athletic Aptitude Testing (MAAT) to determine which sports kids will be playing --...

"This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She's landed her dream marketing internship at Friends of Flavor, a wildly popular cooking channel in Seattle. The only problem? Benny Beneventi, the relentlessly charming, backwards-baseball-cap-wearing culinary intern--and her main competition for the fall job. Reese's plan to keep work a No Feelings Zone crumbles like a day-old muffin when...

Select teenaged girls are invited to join the exclusive and futuristic Alpha Academy, where they must compete feverishly to establish and maintain their status among their extremely competitive peers.