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.

"No one knows about defense attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spend with the carnival that's just arrived in town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Karen's plan to hold a neighborhood carnival becomes more of a problem than she expected.

This beginning of a brand-new trilogy follows Nancy's adventures at a creepy carnival. Nancy needs to find out who is writing the gossipy Burn Book Blog and, later, passing along threatening notes to popular girl Lexi Claremont. To do so, she must go undercover as one of the in-crowd, working the fro-yo stand at the town carnival. True to her sleuthing abilities, Nancy manages to solve this first mystery-but uncovers more trouble while she's at it....

When he goes to a carnival with Sarah and his cousin Percy, Rotten Ralph learns that winning is not everything.

Readers can move the cardboard bus from page to page as it picks up children dressed in different costumes before arriving at its destination, a carnival.

Eleven-year-old Kayleigh Fisher is excited when a carnival comes to his town, but soon his excitement gives way to suspicion and dread when he first sees the clowns' menacing and spooky faces.

When the carnival comes to town, Timmy visits The Mystic, asking for strength and power. But when his new powers cause too much havoc, Timmy searches for The Mystic again to remove the spell.