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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Everybody loves amusement parks, unless they're haunted. In Scooby's Fun Zone, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo pit their wits against a muscle-bound strongman. The crew attends a carnival at their Central High alma mater and loses their science teacher, Mr. McDrabble. Finally, the gang visits a state fair and dreams of returning to the present when they lose Daphne in an automated house of the future in High-Tech House of Horrors.
11) I am mighty!
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her strength and her magical curls to help her friends, rescue her dog from a tire swing, and win a prize at the carnival.
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English
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"When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern—once “The Youngest and Very Best Fortune Teller in the World”٬٢٠١٤؛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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a thirteen-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.
18) Empty smiles
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
20) The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies-by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money displaying...
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