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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Language
English
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The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.
When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobat singing
6) Circus
Author
Publisher
Macmillan,:c1974
Pub. Date
1974
Language
English
Description
Poems and illustrations depict the sights and sounds of the circus
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Language
English
Description
Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, however, has no intention of playing a loving bridegroom to a spoiled brat, and sets out to tame the irrepressible Daisy.
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Language
English
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In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling circus to perform as the “little sister” to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she’s...
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English
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Skye Fargo takes on a circus swindler in the greatest showdown on earth…
When a giant beast tramples a homestead and injures some settlers, Skye Fargo sets out to track the animal. But neither Skye nor the wilds of Utah could prepare for what they discover…an elephant! There’s only one explanation: Thaddeus Thimbletree and his traveling circus is in town.
Skye returns the elephant, but his work is far...
When a giant beast tramples a homestead and injures some settlers, Skye Fargo sets out to track the animal. But neither Skye nor the wilds of Utah could prepare for what they discover…an elephant! There’s only one explanation: Thaddeus Thimbletree and his traveling circus is in town.
Skye returns the elephant, but his work is far...
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English
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London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia ... Pronounced by the most eminent physician of the day to be "a true hybrid wherein the nature of woman presides...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with a couple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animals escaping into the night. When the body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, believing the two incidents might be connected. Who is the nameless woman and who...
15) Open season 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Boog's pals choose family obligations over the annual guys' trip, a disappointed Boog takes a trip on his own, which leads him right into the middle of a circus ring. When he switches places with a devious circus grizzly and falls for a troupe member, he'll come to realize that maybe you don't have to choose between family and friendship after all. Bonus features include a progression reel, and a Runaway RV game
16) Secret heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus
17) Oliver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
18) Big top bonanza
Author
Series
Dog diaries (James Patterson) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Junior is in for a BARKing big adventure when the circus comes to town!"--
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Your favorite characters are back in their most hilarious adventure yet! Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are on the run through Europe in this wildly-entertaining and outrageous comedy critic's call 'charming and very funny'! With the fame-loving King Julian and take-charge Penguins, the whole crew joins the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control
20) August acrobat
Author
Series
Calendar mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy try to help out the Flying Fortunatos, an acrobatic troupe with a very shabby traveling circus, by identifying the marvelous, hooded trapeze artist they spied rehearsing.
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