Book Fair Street Festival Opens

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  Students from Renaissance Charter School at Plantation look over books from the Percy Jackson series at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Pictured left to right: Brianna Toney, Sadiyah Rowe, Kayla Crooks and Kayla Nicholson. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  The street fair of the Miami Book Fair International opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Andy Gonzalez, with the Sunflower company, juggles bowling pins in the Children's Alley at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Jorge Rodriguez and other preschoolers from Holy Comforter Day Care Center of Miami, get ready to read with their fashionable, lenseless glasses at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  The Miami Book Fair International street fair opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Crowds line up for food at the food tents as the Metro Mover passes by overhead. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Caitlin Collier,11,(center) and Isabella Trapani,10 (right) of the Renaissance Charter School of Plantation, pour over the Lauren Conrad Beauty book at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International which opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  (center) Caitlin Collier,11, and Isabella Trapani (right) ,10 of the Renaissance Charter School of Plantation, pour over the Lauren Conrad Beauty book at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International which opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  A woman thumbs through a miniature book on display at the Los Libros Mas Pequeños Del Mundo tent at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International which opened Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Sadiyah Rowe and Kayla Crooks, both are students from Renaissance Charter School at Plantation look over books from the Percy Jackson series at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Children join a musical parade led through the Children's Alley by members of the Miami Children's Museum, at the Miami Book Fair International Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Clifford the Big Red Dog, was spotted among the crowd walking the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Nico Madinya looks over a book with fellow students from the Renaissance Charter School at Plantation at the street fair of the Miami Book Fair International Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF