I mean is this kind of thing really common around kids? When I was 14-17 years old in Highschool, I used to welcome friendly competition like this in order to better motivate myself. The more smarter a classmate was, the more I wanted to FAIRLY compete against them. Jealousy like this really doesn't help at all
I read whatever, as long as it's fun.
Favorite things to read now is Reincarnation of the Heavenly Demon, Absolute Regression and Absolute Dominion.