pageants

Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.

With the Board of Inspectors threatening to shut down Rotten School, Bernie Bridges only has time for one last money-making scheme, but his friends are too obsessed with a role-playing video game to help him.

While putting on a Halloween pageant, the alphabet mixes things up with some spooky, and funny, results.

Easy text and rebuses introduce various characters as they prepare for a Christmas pageant.

Twelve-year-old House Jackson, team captain and star pitcher of the Aurora County All-Stars, is finally ready to play again after being sidelined for a year with a broken elbow, but a standoff ensues when the team's big game is scheduled for the same day as Aurora County's two-hundredth anniversary pageant--an event directed by the very girl who caused Jackson's injury.

Lizzie is hot on the trail of the person trying to sabotage Ethan's chances at winning the Mr. Teen Hottie pageant.

Lizzie decides to investigate when someone keeps sabotaging her friend Miranda's plans for the Spring Fling.

Introduces some of the many forms of folk pageants including the Native American powwow, rodeo, Renaissance fair, folk drama, parade with float contest, and quilt-makers festival.

The last novel written by English author Virginia Woolf, telling of the undercurrents swirling behind the scenes of the annual pageant at Pointz Hall, especially among unhappy Isa Oliver, her handsome husband Giles, and Mrs. Manresa, a guest who is pursuing him.