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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hannah's popular bakery, The Cookie Jar, licated in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is best known for its tempting confections--until best-selling cookbook author and television personality Connie McIntyre is murdered in its pantry while baking a special treat for the town's Winter Carnival. Despite police warnings to steer clear of the case, Hannah is soon chasing down a bevy of suspicious characters.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Andy walks into Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors, and then he walks right into the mirror, [becoming] a reflection. Another boy, a boy who is not Andy, goes home with Andy's parents. And the boy who was once Andy is pulled--literally pulled, by the hands, by a girl named Mona--into another world, a carnival world where anything might happen"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c 1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Cam notices that the prizes for the most difficult game at the school carnival are rapidly disappearing, she uses her amazing photographic memory to investigate.
Author
Series
Problim children volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
With their scheming neighbor Desdemona O'Pinion attempting to turn the Problim children against each other, the siblings come together to save the carnival and rescue their mother.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
11) Empty smiles
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Le Grand's Carnival Fantastic isn't like other traveling circuses. It's bound by a charm, held together by a centuries-old curse, that protects its members from ever growing older or getting hurt. Emmaline King is drawn to the circus like a moth to a flame and unwittingly recruited into its folds by a mysterious teen boy whose kiss is as cold as ice.--From Publishers description.
13) Bacchanal
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger...
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Language
English
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"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
16) The masked city
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword--most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene has settled into a routine, collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in nicely with the local culture. But when her apprentice, Kai--a...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David, her awful ex. But when the future of Grandeur nears the...
Author
Series
Incredibly dead pets of Rex Dexter volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.
19) Death swatch
Author
Series
Scrapbooking mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests--including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand--never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote. Buried up to her neck in strange clues,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
By her fourteenth birthday, Babe Killingsworth measures 6ʹ9ʺ and weighs 342 pounds. In 1896, what other options does a giant have but to join a carnival? Her only real talent is handling animals: Critters is folks to me.
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