Carnival in a fix

Reeve and McIntyre are back with another Not-So-Impossible Tale, their illustrated series of wacky stand-alone adventures. Here readers travel to Funfair Moon, a lunar amusement park, where a young girl named Emily resides above the Lost Property Office. Emily loves the park's riotous noise and energy the screams from Terror Mountain, the spinning Tilt-A-Whirl, the sugar-scented air. Most of all, she likes helping the repairmen keep the park in tip-top shape. While things are typically all fun and games here, a vindictive safety inspector pays Funfair Moon a surprise visit just as rides start going haywire. It's up to Emily to sort out what's causing the trouble or the park will be shut down! This light mystery features short chapters rich in action and laughs, whether from a rampaging cotton candy monster or stormtrooperlike space commandos experiencing the joy of bumper cars. The cartoonish two-toned illustrations, in orange and black, reveal an alien Coney Island filled with swooping roller coaster tracks and tentacled park-goers. Readers are in for a wild ride with this one.--Smith, Julia Copyright 2017 Booklist