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The crazy carnival case

Nancy Drew investigates when a series of pranks cause a singer to consider cancelling a concert at the local carnival.

Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake

Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind.

Chimichanga

the sorrow of the world's worst face!
2018
"The story of a bizarre monster and the little bearded girl who guides him through life in the sideshow. Now they have met another misfit--a boy so ugly he hides behind the world's longest bangs!"--.
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Let's go to a carnival!

2020
"This book for beginning readers is the perfect way to prepare a new carnival goer for a super-fun day. Including full-color photographs that closely correlate to the text, it introduces carnival basics in language written especially for new readers"--Publisher.
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The carnival of wishes & dreams

2019
Told from three viewpoints, Audrey, Grace, and Harlow come together at their annual town carnival to heal and reconnect after a tragedy.
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Carnival catastrophe

With their father searching for their missing mother and their neighbor, Desdemona O'Pinion, trying to turn the siblings against each other, the Problim children have to get creative in order to keep their family from being torn apart. Mona enters the Corn Dog Princess pageant in the hopes of earning the trust of their community while she searches for answers to her mother's disappearance. In order to save their mother and prevent certain disaster at the carnival, the siblings must stick together.
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Don't look down

Simone Yang is excited to be visiting her grandmother and her best friend Olive in Maine, but Olive and her friends want to visit the carnival that just arrived and ride the ferris wheel, and Simone is really, really afraid of heights; she does not want to let her friend down, but the rides at the Forever Fun Carnival are falling apart, the workers are creepy--and the fortune-telling machine is telling her "you are right to be scared.".
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Ms. Sue has no clue!

"Alexia's mom, Ms. Sue, leads the kids of Ella Mentry School in the weirdest fundraiser in the history of the world!"--Provided by publisher.
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Joyland

In the summer of 1973 at an amusement park in a small North Carolina, town 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.
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Junie B. Jones collection

2012
Presents four stories aboutJunie B. Jones, in which the irrepressible kindergartner falls for a new boy at school, fears a monster has been leaving drool on her pillow, makes a bad prize choice in a cake walk, and is left out of a birthday party.
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