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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
Author
Series
(David Andrew),MVP volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
11) Tumbling
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After sacrificing their childhoods, Grace, Leigh, Camille, Wilhelmina, and Monica are competing in the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, after which their lives will change forever.
12) Olympig!
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Smurfs graphic novel volume 11
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Loving to play sports but unable to get the other Smurfs to play with him, Hefty Smurf organizes the "Smurf Olympics," but when neither team will select Weakling Smurf, he is forced to compete on his own for the grand prize of a Smurfette kiss.
14) Zoolympics
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Number-shaped animals compete in various sports in the Zoolympics, with Giraffe winning first place in the bike race, Fox taking third in gymnastics, and Snake placing sixth in the high jump.
15) Max and Marla
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Max and Marla are best friends. And aspiring Olympians! With their eyes on the prize, they know exactly what it'll take to reach sledding success: preparation, practice and perseverance"--
"Olympians in training, Max and Marla show us how dedication, persistence and friendship will always lead to sucess!"--
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Geronimo goes to Athens to report on the Olympics, and after observing some of the games he and detective Hercule Poirat become suspicious about Cyrus von Snootrat who seems to be winning every Olympic event and they decide to investigate him.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup in Brazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that someone...
20) Private games
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...