carnivals

Best friends Cornbread and Poppy spend a day at the Carnival playing games, eating snacks, and riding the Ferris wheel.

"Best friends Cornbread and Poppy spend a day at the Carnival playing games, eating snacks, and riding the Ferris wheel"--OCLC.

When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern--once 'the youngest and very best fortune teller in the world'--is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: on her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn't even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that will spiral across the United States, Canada, into the Arctic Circle and beyond--and help her make her own life whole by piecing together the mystery surrounding her mother's disappearance.

"After an extended stay with her grandmother, Chloe is finally back home, ready to hang out with her best friend. Unfortunately, her best friend Fatoumata is away and her helicoptering father taking up all her time. Friendless and alone (save for her dad), our young heroine gets swept in the preparations for neighborhood carnival! Can a costume change and a visit from her wise Uncle Steve fix things or will Chloe be left the clown of the party? Then, when the Blin residence takes in Kathleen Wood, a British foreign exchange student for a week Chloe has to adapt. How will she react to not being the queen of her household anymore?.

"After her mother dies, twelve-year-old Louisa LaRoche is awaiting the return of her father when she finds a ticket to the Carnival Beneath the Stars and is drawn toward a magical but dangerous fate"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--OCLC.

Ren and his brother Kip go to spend Halloween with their aunt Winnie who runs the local nursing home. When a strange carnival arrives in town, Kip makes a bargain with a mysterious man for unlimited rides that has unexpected consequences. Now Ren must rescue his brother before the end of Halloween or Kip will remain trapped inside the carnival forever.

"Cosmoe the Earth-boy and his space-adventuring partners, Big Humphree and Princess Dagger, return--just in time to save the galaxy...Crostini's Cosmic Carnival is a strange, monster-filled space train that travels the galaxy. When Cosmoe catches the attention of the carnival's ringmaster, the Neon Wiener, hot-dog-selling spaceship, becomes part of the show. Cosmoe is now known as Cosmoe the Monster-Tamer--and he's a hit across the galaxy! Just one problem--Cosmoe and his buddies are in some serious danger, and not only from the wild monsters Cosmoe's facing in the ring. Can they save the day and still sell enough wieners to keep Galactic Hot Dogs in business?"--Publisher.

"The WellieWishers are throwing a carnival! There will be games and cotton candy, balloons and baby chicks. Best of all, there will be a real horse to ride! There's only one problem: Ashlyn refuses to come. Why? The carnival just won't be as much fun without Ashlyn! Can her friends convince her to give it a try?"--Back cover.

"In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-- until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter"--OCLC.