carnivals

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carnivals

Carnival

1996
A carnival offers all the fun and excitement of flying balloons, shooting basketballs, riding ponies, and walking through a haunted house.

The likes of me

2001
In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.

About face

2001
Both Glory Bea Goode, who lives with her grandmother over a second-hand store in Turnback, Missouri, and Marvalene Zulig, who travels with her parents with Shuroffs' Spectacular carnival, are unhappy with their lives until their friendship gives them a new perspective.

How I became a freak

1997
After being turned into a horrible monster at a carnival house of mirrors, the reader must make plot choices that determine whether or not the freak returns to normal.

Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake

1999
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.

Ibid

a life : a novel in footnotes
2004
A full-length novel made up entirely of footnotes that reflects on key events and figures of the twentieth century.

Eyeing the flash

the education of a carnival con artist
2005
The author chronicles his coming-of-age in the 1960s, when he was recruited and trained as a con man by an experienced young carny and became an expert himself, soon facing off against his former mentor.

The carnival committee

2008
The students of Hill Street School are getting ready for their spring carnival, and the third-grade class is making the fliers and maps, but when a big mistake is made on the flier, it threatens to spoil the day.

At the carnival

2005
Dora and her friends go to the carnival and try to earn eight yellow tickets in order to win the great pinata.

Bingelman's midway

1995
The story of a young boy who cannot resist the lure of a carnival when it visits his small midwestern town.

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