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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Phileas Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that he will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less. And Fogg and his French servant Passepartout race across the globe in an attempt to win the bet.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Widows Club's most outgoing member, Hattie Schrock, when her cousin bets her she can't help Paradise Valley's most difficult man learn to be happier, tackles the challenge head-on only to discover that Christian Beachy is more complicated-and appealing-than she thought.
4) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Author
Series
Wildes of Lindow Castle volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While considering the duke's proposal, Lady Betsy Wilde has one last adventure in the form of a scandalous wager with Lord Jeremy Roden. --Publisher
6) The rounders
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
Author
Series
Hocus pocus hotel volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the great magician Abracadabra is challenged by the illusionist Theopolis, Charlie and Tyler must solve the mystery of how the illusions were done, or Abracadabra will forfeit the hotel.
9) Choco-Louie
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Louie's older brother bets his new skateboard that Louie can't go an entire week without eating any chocolate.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the fable, "The Wind and the Sun," in which Wind, Rain, and Sun attempt to remove the cap of a shepherdess. Collage illustrations include symbols based on seal characters of Chinese pictograms.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ellie is furious when her twin brother Cypselis bets the school bully Big Bacchiad that he can beat him in a foot race or give her up as a slave, and tries to come up with a way to ensure her brother's victory.
13) Geek girl
Author
Publisher
Sweetwater Books
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Language
English
Description
Jen, a teenaged foster child and social outcast, makes a bet with her friends that she can turn Trevor, a straight-A student and self-avowed "geek", into a social outcast like herself, but quickly finds there is more to him than she expected.
14) Vanishing point
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger that needs to go from Colorado to San Fransisco. Shortly after receiving the car, he takes a bet to get it there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol, they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul who is a blind DJ with a police radio scanner.
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