Henry Carter Hull

Samuel wakes up really hungry and, unable to get enough to eat at home, he goes to a pie eating contest where he finally gets his fill.

When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

Young Nancy Drew investigates when a friend's recipe for a local ice-cream factory contest goes missing.

The teeny tiny ghost and his classmates enter a monster-making contest at their school.

Hoping to beat his cousin Percy in the cat show, Ralph allows Sarah to help him spruce up his image and get in shape.

Yoko and Timothy aren't very frightening in their costumes that look like food, but they can still scare Doris and Stumpy, who ride an almost-real motorcycle in the school's Halloween parade.

Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band with Duck Ellington, Bee Holliday, and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Steer, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.

Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.

Drago the little dragon surprises his family when he enters a stunts flying competition with them, after taking flying lessons from a bird.

Bad Bart, the burliest boy pirate in the Atlantic, and Mean Mo, the mightiest girl pirate in the Pacific, meet in the middle in a no-holds-barred contest to see which is the best pirate in the world.