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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
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Magic misfits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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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
4) Empty smiles
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Series
Small spaces quartet volume 4
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"--
5) Hey, Presto!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Friends Presto and Monty open a very successful magic show at the carnival, but Monty not only steals the spotlight, he starts to treat Presto very badly putting the show, and their friendship, at risk
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jordan Keppler is looking forward to a nice, quiet day at Carnival World. He may not love the scary rides like his sister, Karla, does, but he'll still go on them with her. But Jordan and Karla are about to experience something much more terrifying. There's a boy in a cage hidden away in a secret part of the park. And he's begging for some food. The sign next to him says "Please do not feed the weirdo". What harm could it do, though? Jordan and Karla...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Treetopolis Summer Carnival is coming soon--with yummy food and games with prizes--and Eva can't wait. But when Eva hurts her wing in a game of wingball, she goes to the hospital, where she meets a new friend, Rocco, who has a broken leg. Now while wearing a sling for a week prevents her from writing in her diary, she turns to her friends and family in order to keep it up to date. And will Eva still have fun at the carnival?
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Series
Desmond Pucket volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Left with an abundance of scary props after rescuing a bus filled with monsters from a defunct amusement park ride, Desmond and his posse of pranksters organize a carnival of horrors for Cloverfield Junior High
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Junie B. Jones series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind
12) Joyland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever
13) Riddle me this!
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Batman, Superman, and the other super heroes see through the Riddler's devious crime
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Series
Language
English
Description
Selling her corn fritters at a carnival, Deputy Donut Cafe owner Emily Westhill faces off against a murderer who doesn't play fair... Emily and her assistant, Nina, are looking forward to manning the Deputy Donut tent at the Faker's Dozen Carnival in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin--a festival held on Friday the thirteenth to celebrate good and bad luck. But Emily has barely dropped the corn fritters in oil when bad luck boils up. First, their bucket of confectioner's...
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Series
Breaking news volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bears and their cub catch two escaping prisoners who are hiding at the carnival
16) Carnival quest
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Series
Candy shop war volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When the third White sibling brings a carnival to town, giving everyone who visited strange nightmares and weird dreams, the Blue Falcons, with a host of new candies, must tap into the power of their own dreams to battle their greatest adversary yet
The secret kids' club The Blue Falcons-- Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon-- have defeated two of the White siblings when they tried to control the town-- and the planet! Now the third sibling, Camilla,...
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As the carnival sabotage continues, it looks like the saboteur has a specific target: the Mahoney Scholarship Award ceremony. There are four equally worthy candidates up for the scholarship, making them equally worthy suspects. The evidence is slowly mounting - threatening notes, arson. On top of that, the intrigue is getting closer to home and Nancy's father is getting wrapped up in the the case
19) Serial sabotage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a cash box is stolen from a visiting carnival, Nancy endeavors to clear the name of her accused friend, Ned, and uncovers a complicated plot involving financial mismanagement, a setup and other sinister activities
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don't take a huge interest in finding the murderer of Wallace Hunter, a linotype operator who turns up dead after a solitary drinking adventure that led through many...
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