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Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" assignments. But when he gets caught he is offered a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul must pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin and hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst -- the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If he refuses...
4) Olympig!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
"Pursued by Mr. Hamstring, a reporter who is sure he will fail, Boomer becomes the first pig ever to compete in the Animal Olympics and demonstrates that attitude can be more important than winning" --
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358, 12 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 33
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo is assigned to report on the Olympics.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
380L
Physical Desc
70 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jillian Connors has the perfect daughter: loving and smart, she's an Olympic hopeful with a bright future. But when Gabby becomes pregnant, Jillian fears that future is lost. Worse, she must confront her own secret past and hope the decisions she's made don't drown their whole family.
9) The games
Author
Series
Private novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after averting disaster while overseeing security for the World Cup, Jack Morgan, the head of international investigation firm Private, returns to Rio to secure the Olympics, only to confront a Brazilian saboteur who is hatching a lethal plot.
"Beautiful white-sand beaches, gorgeous women, and stunning natural beauty...Sounds like heave on earth, but to Jack Morgan, head of the renowned international security firm Private, it's a place...
10) Gold
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
11) Remember summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her-the Olympic Games. Little does she realize that she's about to face greater perils in the arms of a stranger than she's ever found on the back of her horse. Cord Elliot is a man trained to deflect disaster and his mission is to ensure that Raine Smith remains untouched by sudden gunfire at the Summer Games. Yet from the moment Raine Meets Cord's ice-blue glance, she knows...
15) The Wuzzolympics
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On your mark, get set, go! Michelle Kwanzleberry is the coach for the Wuzzleburg Wacky Dash. Wubbzy and his friends race over the Great Wall of Wuzzle, through the Soupy Swamp, and over the Bendy Bridge. Who will win?" -- Page [4] of cover.
19) Speed star
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
33 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While looking for his running shoes before a race at school, fifteen-year-old Rex Jones is transported by his mysterious cell phone to the Olympics, where a strange man gives him a new pair of shoes just before he competes in the 100-meter final.
Author
Series
M.V.P. most valuable player volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Five friends are ready for their school's Olympics field day. But not everyone wants to play fair someone is trying to ruin the events! Can the kids in the Most Valuable Player club solve the mystery, save the Olympics, and take home the gold? Includes sports facts"--