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Stink and the world's worst super-stinky sneakers

2010
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.

Heidi Heckelbeck and the cookie contest

2012
Heidi wants to win the Brewster Elementary cookie contest, but does not think through all the consequences of adding magic to her recipe.

Emily's art

2001
Emily paints four pictures and enters one in the first-grade art contest, but the judge interprets Emily's entry as a rabbit instead of a dog.

Shake, rattle, & hurl!

2011
Rotten School schemer Bernie Bridges is determined that Rotten House will beat Nyce House in the annual talent contest.

Ora at the monster contest

2010
Ora wants to win the Strong Monster Contest to receive the gold statue, but when the competition does not end in her favor, Ora learns a lesson on sportsmanship.

Some frog!

2002
Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence.

The Cut-ups carry on

1993
Spud and Joe are forced by their mothers to take ballroom dancing lessons and scheme to win a contest on television.

The lady with the ship on her head

1990
Madame Pompenstance competes for the Best Headdress Award at the annual Fancy Dress Ball, unaware that a small ship has sailed onto her head and become her headdress.

Surviving Antarctica

reality TV 2083
2006
In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations re-enact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.

The Fairest

2011
The girls at Tubman High prepare to compete in the Princess of the Fair, and even though they are supposed to embody characteristics of Harriet Tubman, they allow themselves to get caught up in a popularity contest and will stop at nothing to win.

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