Throughout history humans have been challenging themselves against each other. Who could be the fastest? The strongest? The cleverest? While this was going on some other people decided to create epic contests that were...well, a little bit more unusual. Welcome to The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions, introduced by podcaster and expert fact-finder Anna Goldfield! Inside this nonfiction book prepare to get your mind blown by: The people...

The Benton Bluff Junior High band is one of a number of bands that will compete to perform for a chance to play for the governor, and two of the band members are fighting over who gets to be the soloist--Baylor Meece (clarinet) is not one of them, so can she come up with a plan to bring the band back into harmony?

Geronimo Stilton's ancestor, Geronimo Stiltonoot, searches for Tiger Khan's missing flag to prevent chaos during the annual cavemouse sports competition.

Follows the twelve teenage participants of a life-or-death game as they shed their normal lives and prepare for Endgame.

As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.

Every year West Clabberton has a scavenger hunt, and for the 100th year the town is having a statue made of the winning team, and two teams, the Choppers and the Pampercurlerz, are particularly determined to win; so determined, in fact, that they spend the entire hunt trying to sabotage each other--and ignoring what other teams are doing.

Bagel wants to compete in a dance contest, but everyone from Pretzel to Croissant turns him down until, at last, shy and lovely Cupcake agrees to be his partner.

Pinkalicious feels the pressure to come up with funny jokes when she is challenged by Tiffany to a laugh-off.