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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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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...
3) Oliver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
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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
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and, as the greatest tiger trainer in history, fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.
It's 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to...
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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.
10) Julius
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Julius, an African gorilla, finds a home in an American circus. One day he inadvertently frightens away his audience, and goes in search of them.
11) Cannonball Simp
Author
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
1967, c1966
Language
English
Description
A small dog, abandoned near a trash dump and captured by a dog catcher, finds a place for herself when she is befriended by a circus clown whose act needs improving.
14) Klutz
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A family with a long history of clumsiness discovers their unexpected true calling as nimble-footed circus performers.
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Series
Language
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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Language
English
Description
"If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."--Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway Ringmaster -- Rin, to those who know her best -- can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits...
18) Bear Circus
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
It takes the koala bears seven years to learn to use the circus equipment they find and to put together an act
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Language
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...
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Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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...
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