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Series
Goldie Vance volume 4
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Marigold 'Goldie' Vance has an insatiable curiosity and dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily for Goldie, with the St. Pascal Rockin' the Beach Music Festival coming to town, there's plenty of inexplicable shenanigans keeping her gumshoe brain busy, from mysterious power outages, to missing musicians, to Russian spies hiding in the shadows."--Back cover.
182) The pick-up
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mari doesn't believe in dating-- it can only end with a broken heart. When the rideshare she's taking to a music festival picks up a cute guy, she knows it can't work: she's only staying at her dad's house in Chicago for the weekend. When TJ meets Mari in the back of the rideshare, he feels alive for the first time in a long time. His family's expectations have been casting shadows on his dreams to study art in college. Separated by the crowd at the...
183) Creating Woodstock
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for 50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with the most comprehensive examination of how the festival came to be using original interviews with key figures, rare archival footage and unearthed photographs.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A sweet story that highlights a family's bond, even when they're far apart. In China, the Mid-Autumn festival is a time to celebrate and reunite with family. However, Maomao's father is away on a business trip this year, and won't be able to enjoy the holiday with his wife and son. Hoping they can celebrate under the same bright moon despite the distance between them, Maomao asks the moon to deliver a postcard to his father; the moon smiles and promises...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
Publisher
KABOOM
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Steven and the Crystal Gems are recruited by Mayor Dewey to help clean up the boardwalk before their new summer festival - but who is behind these acts of vandalism? As Steven and his friends investigate, they'll discover the culprits are their own kind of monstrous mess. Saving the day will be a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!"--Provided by publisher.
187) The midwinter witch
Author
Series
Witch boy (Ostertag) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Magic has a dark side . . . Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament-as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival-like...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Princess Luna, the guardian of the night, peacefully rules over Equestria alongside her big sister. When the Cutie Mark Crusaders suggest she should have a holiday as equally prestigious as Celestia's Summer Sun Celebration, she declines. Luna isn't comfortable with such attention--especially after all the terror she caused as Nightmare Moon. So when she realizes Celestia is orchestrating a surprise Festival of the Winter Moon, she decides to have...
191) Taking Woodstock
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate business. Three weeks later half a million...
192) The maple festival
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophie helps her mother bake maple treats for the annual Maple Festival in Silverlake Forest. When she notices no one at her mother's stand, she must find a way to attract more visitors"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jerry Flack, recently-elected sixth-grade president, organizes an Elizabethan festival at school but accepts a challenge from a bully that may mean he will once again be considered a "dork."
195) The Frost Festival
Author
Series
Itty Bitty Princess Kitty volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Itty and her best friend Luna Unicorn enjoy all the snowy activities at the Frost Festival, but before Itty can judge the ice sculpture competition, an ice pick goes missing and one sculptor blames another for stealing, so Itty must find the missing carving tool and find a way to settle the argument.--
Author
Series
Microsaurs volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As the first official members of the International Microsaur Protection Agency, Danny and Lin thought that they were prepared for anything. They've flown with Tiny-Dactyls, herded Tiny-Stegos, and wrangled Tiny-saurus Rexes. But when the Professor's newly upgraded Expand-o-matic messes up, they end up facing their biggest problem yet... a full-sized Triceratops let loose in the middle of the town's yearly Tomato Festival! Will Danny and Lin be able...
199) A killer maize
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Becca Robbins is selling her farm-made jams and preserves at a county fair where business is not the only thing that{u2019}s dead{u2026} The last person Becca expects to run into at the Swayton County Fall Festival is her ex-husband, Scott Triplett, who{u2019}s operating a shooting gallery. Honesty was not always Scott{u2019}s policy, and their unexpected reunion is further complicated when the festival becomes a crime scene. On Becca{u2019}s second...
200) Bad moon rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive...
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