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[2016]
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"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"--
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 71
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Babar's children have all grown up. He and Celeste take them to the Celesteville Games. All the best animal athletes will be there to compete. Babar's daughter Flora falls in love with a young athlete, Corriander, from the country of Mirza. They decide to marry and all of Celesteville is invited.
23) Olympig!
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Pub. Date
2016.
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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.
24) Hotshot
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Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have conditionally inherited an oceanfront resort. The girls must run it for one year and show a profit before they will own it. There are countless challenges and too many people who want to stop the sisters from succeeding. Among them are cousins who are outraged that they didn't inherit the resort, as well as a powerful group of land developers who have been eyeing the coveted beachfront property. It's soon apparent...
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Since the dawn of recorded history, the Klallam Indians have thrived upon the bounty of the Elwha River. In 1889, on the eve of Washington's statehood, the Olympic Peninsula remains America's last frontier. But not for long. As northwestern expansion reaches its feverish crescendo, the clock is ticking...
26) Nowhere to run
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Joe Pickett is in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day.
27) Wilderness
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the war's savagery and the people who touched his life.
28) Gemini: a novel
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Dr. Charlotte Reese works in the intensive care unit of Seattles Beacon Hospital. Her job is to battle death-to monitor erratic heartbeats, worry over low oxygen levels, defend against infection and demise. One night a Jane Doe is transferred to her care from a rural hospital on the Olympic Peninsula. This unidentified patient remains unconscious, the victim of a hit and run. As Charlotte and her team struggle to stabilize her, the police search for...
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[2020]
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"In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she returns home feted as America's Golden Girl until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her. Eager to prove that she has what it...
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Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
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When the Pirate Cats travel back in time to enter the first Olympic Games, they bring modern-age sports gear to improve their odds.
31) Lethal White
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
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When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
32) Strong Heart
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Strong Heart volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"One stormy May night, just as Tom Olsen is about to leave with his Native American friends to visit his grandfather's grave deep in Washington State's Olympic Peninsula wilderness, he answers a knock at his door to find an abandoned thirteen year old girl. The girl announces her name is Sarah Cooley and that Tom is her grandfather. She tells Tom he lives at the end of the earth. All she sees is dripping forest, tall trees, rain and wind. Astonished,...
33) The girl games
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Goddess girls. Super specials volume 1
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" Artemis, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Athena are sick and tired of being left out of the annual boys-only Olympic Games. Their solution? The Girl Games! But as the Goddess Girls work to make their dream into a reality, they come up against plenty of chaos and competition. Told in alternating points of view, this super special is packed with Olympic spirit!"--Publisher's website.
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2018.
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Snowman Paul finds a new way to enjoy the Winter Olympics. Everything is about to change when Snowman Paul is invited to serve as a referee at the Winter Games. But, will this opportunity to bask in Olympic glory spoil Snowman Paul's friendship with Dan and all the other kids? This book teaches your child the meaning of true friendship and the importance of being true to yourself.
37) Bear bait
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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While working on a 12-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and volunteer firewatcher, Summer "Sam" Westin finds things heating up when an explosion almost claims the life of another volunteer and is linked to an old gold mine and an illegal bear hunter.