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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped...
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
4) Clown around
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A clown troupe prepares for, and presents, a circus act complete with seltzer, a tiny car, and a high wire act.
5) Circus Train
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Circus Train pulls in to town, and each kind of animal is in it's own brightly colored car.
Author
Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing both from danger and want. But Dandy grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre - which awaits the return of the last
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Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE WITCHES OF KARRES ARE BACK—
AND NOW THERE'S ALSO A WIZARD!
It just wasn't fair! Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles kept piling up.
Sent on a secret mission to stop the nanite plague, a self-aware disease that could devastate whole worlds, he quickly found that someone had convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, which
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Publisher
Make Believe Ideas
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a new theme park opens next to the Lollipop Fairies' famous show the people stop coming to see the Fairies, so Lola and her friends create a new exciting act to bring back the audiences.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jane the dog doesn't have a unique talent in the circus like the rest of her family, until the ringmaster discovers what is truly special about her"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Look for Pam Jenoff's new novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, an unforgettable story of courage and friendship during wartime.
A New York Times bestseller!
"Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. " —Library Journal
"Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion.... I read this novel in a headlong rush." —Christina Baker...
A New York Times bestseller!
"Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. " —Library Journal
"Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion.... I read this novel in a headlong rush." —Christina Baker...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 31
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew joins the circus in order to investigate the mystery surrounding a gold charm bracelet and a young orphaned aerialist.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how circus owner John Ringling North, choreographer George Balanchine, and composer Igor Stravinsky teamed up to create the "Circus Polka," a ballet for fifty elephants and fifty dancers, and describes the opening night performance in 1942.
15) Dumbo and mama
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Dumbo and his mom decide to have the perfect afternoon, they find the only thing they need is one another. The third in a new charming line of touch-and-feel board books, this title features an adorable new story starring everybody's favorite baby elephant, original art, and touch-and-feel elements on every spread.
17) The circus ship
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left on their own to swim the chilly waters after their ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, a group of circus animals stagger onto a nearby island, quickly winning over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways, and when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
19) 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.
20) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
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