Callie Cat loves to ice skate and when she hears about the Honeybrook Ice Skating Contest she decides to enter, only to find that winning is not as important as the joy of skating.

Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.

Mr. Silly wants to win the Nonsense Cup of Nonsenseland where trees are red and grass is blue, and Mr. Muddle grows square apples.

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

"Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought"--OCLC.

When her family's bakery starts losing business to a chain store, Ali wants to help, if only the competition weren't so cute.

"Young Cinderella makes a surprising new friend as they each compete in the Midsummer Festival's puppet contest"--

Sheetal Mistry, a rising high school junior who is half-star, half-human, must win a competition in the starry court to save her human father.

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

Palace Pets Sultan, Treasure, and Pumpkin compete to determine who the bravest pet in Whisker Haven is.