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1) Takedown
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Jeff wants to be a good wrestler, but his bad temper is getting in the way.
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Rhyming text describes how a young girl and her puppy try to practice self-control when her mother bakes a cake and instructs them not to eat it. The sweet treat proves too tempting and after eating it all, the young girl tries to make amends by baking another cake which ends in disaster.
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Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
6) Shut out
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In this modern reimagining of Arispophanes' Lysistrata, when they get fed up with the violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.
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Jae Cho isn't very good at games. Whether it's board games, card games, or anything else, she usually doesn't have much luck. But when she watches her brother, Dal, playing Castle Crusaders 5, she's fascinated by the strategy of destroying the opponent's forces and taking out the enemy's castle. When Dal rushes off and leaves the game running on his computer, Jae can't resist the temptation to try playing for herself. Before long she's hooked on the...
14) Ooze escape!
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Thirteen-year-old Kendall's favorite game is Ooze Escape, but he has never managed to make it to the top level, so when he is invited to participate in an eSports tournament, Kendall knows he has to step-up his game and learn some strategy before he embarrasses himself.
15) Elena rides
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Elena wants to ride her bike. She readies, she steadies. She wobbles, she bobbles ... KA-BANG! Learning to ride a bike is hard. But Elena can do it. Try, try again!"-- Page 4 of cover.
17) Perfect game
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Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.
20) Takedown
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Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.