Meinders Community Library Pipestone

Twelve-year-old Jake, who was one of his mediocre baseball team's best players the previous season, unexpectedly finds himself overshadowed when a new player shows up and the team starts winning.

Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete in surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding events.

A freight train and an automobile race each other on the way to Chicago.

Excitement is spreading through the halls of Dash Candoo's school. The Face-Pulling Championships are about to begin, featuring students holding their faces in such positions as the Vibrating Jaw-Drop with Eye-Roll and the Dripping Stare of Death. Dash and his classmates have been getting ready for this day for ages. But then, suddenly, right before the championship, blue spots appear on everyone's faces...except for Gronville Honkersmith's face,...

Two trains race each other on the way to Chicago.

Wanting to win a blue ribbon at the Third-Grade Breakfast Bash, Frank Pearl has three shots at a prize, and with the support of Judy Moody as well as his amazing yo-yo trick, there's no way Frank can miss out on a trophy this time.

"All Dillon wants is to be a real dancer. And if he wins a summer scholarship at Dance-Splosion, he's on his way. The problem? His dad wants him to play football. And Dillon's freestyle crew, the Dizzee Freekz, says that dance studios are for sell-outs"--

When Alvin's twin sister, Yasmin, lands the lead role in their middle school play, Alvin is faced with the need to find something to do after school while she is rehearsing, so he takes up cross-country running (it is either that or doing homework in the library)--he has always been a fast runner, but he soon learns that distance running is more about patience and pacing than pure speed and staying in the lead, and he will have to adapt or be left...

"Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past...