The students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.

The competition for seventh-grade class president is fierce, and when two of the Beacon Street Girls run against each other, their friendship is endangered.

Forfeiting her dream job to support her mother's Filipino food-truck business, Nikki clashes with a kindhearted but competitive British food-truck newcomer who poaches her customers while encouraging a public feud.

Belinda, a natural competitor with a good heart, and her shy friend Barbara take part in a game of musical chairs. When the game starts, their school gym morphs into a colorful obstacle course.

"A competitive swimmer gets in over her head as she plays a wicked cat-and-mouse game with her wild best friend and a hot new college swimmer"-- Provided by publisher.

After spending the summer at coding camp, Allie Navarro is excited to share the app she built with her friends, until it starts to cause problems between them.

Competing for a prestigious scholarship, six college students, locked in an aging Victorian structure, must spend eight hours with a college administrator who will do anything to keep the school afloat, but when one of them is murdered, the survivors viciously turn on one another.

Kameeka yearns to continue her hula hooping competition with her rival, Jamara, rather than help prepare for Miz Adeline's birthday party, and "the itch" almost ruins the party before the girls learn who the real winner is.

Friends Jamie, Isabella, and Angeline engage in a bit of friendly competition, but when it is determined that the loser must play "dare or worse dare" with Isabella, all bets are off.

When an aspiring reporter, a typecast actress and a guitarist who has been abandoned by his famous father all receive VIP invitations to a Hollywood party organized with sinister intentions against an A-list starlet, the celebrity's subsequent disappearance threatens everything they have worked to achieve.