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Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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
Formats
Description
"In 1911, Mabel MacGinnis is Europe's strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Manzo Brothers Circus her entire life. But at his unexpected death, she loses everything she's ever known and sets off in the company of acrobat Jake Cunningham for America in hope of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. Isabella Moreau, the nation's most feted aerialist, has given everything to the circus. But age and injury now threaten...
23) Embrace me
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattooed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster and improbably close to grace.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When seventeen-year-old Gracie Hart gets caught stealing a ride on a circus train, she expects to be arrested. Instead, she is offered a job as the assistant to the circus magician and knife-thrower, Jack. He's charismatic and genteel but his aim isn't perfect--hence the position opening. Once Gracie starts performing with Jack, she begins finding threatening notes hidden in her costume. At first she thinks she's being haunted by the ghost of the...
26) Arcadio: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
Completed while he was dying, William Goyen's Arcadio is one of the most affecting and imaginative farewells to life ever written. Arcadio, whose voice is inimitably Goyenesque, is a creature from beyond the normal walk of life. Half man, half woman, raised in a whorehouse and for years the veteran exhibitionist in an itinerant circus sideshow, he has escaped from the show and has been wandering in a quest for his lost family. Speaking intimately...
27) Little nothing
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The story of a girl, scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Secret rescuers volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Ava is a dancer with a travelling troupe of entertainers. When Clover, a little unicorn, is trapped by Sir Fitzroy and used to lure the other unicorns into danger, Ava hatches a cunning plan. She and Sophy will disguise themselves and foil Sir Fitzroy's plot, and the unicorns will be safe!
29) Cirkus: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In Patti Frazee's astonishing debut novel, enchantment and illusion casually commingle with reality as the Borefsky Brothers Circus makes its way across the American Midwest in the summer of 1900.Mariana, the fortune teller, makes herself invisible and drifts through the nighttime circus, listening in on conversations and watching over her beloved Shanghai, a fire-breathing dwarf who closely guards his secrets, even from Mariana's second sight. Conjoined...
32) Boneyard
Author
Series
Deadlands (Macmillan) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The newest book based on the hit Weird West RPG franchise Deadlands! Step right up to see the oddities and marvels of The Blackstone Family Circus and Travelling Wonder Show! Gasp at pit wasps the size of a mans forearm. Beware the pumpkin-headed corn stalker, lest it plant its roots in you! Annie Pearl is the keeper of oddities, the mistress of monsters. Her unique collection of creatures is one of the circuss star attractions, drawing wide-eyed...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The touch that was supposed to kill her could do something far worse. Lace Paloma knows she must heed her family's warning that the Corbeaus, a longtime rival family of traveling performers, use black magic to accomplish their feats up in the trees. But a Corbeau boy named Cluck changes everything when he saves Lace's life. With Cluck's family ready to turn against him, the teens traverse a narrow path as they cling to each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"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...
36) The Fiery Ring
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 28
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Family tragedy separates Joy Winslow from her brother Travis, and her resultant desire for revenge may destroy the happiness she feels in working with big cats in a traveling circus and her growing relationship with Chase
Author
Series
Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Detective Sergeant Sholto Lestrade investigates strange affairs at a popular circus and uncovers evidence of murder under the big top.
39) Be a star!
Author
Series
Amazing Stardust Friends volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Allie, Bella, Carly, and Marlo, eight-year-old performers in the Stardust Circus, are normally best friends--but when a film crew comes to do a television special on the circus, Allie's dreams of being a Hollywood star threaten to drive a wedge between them.
40) La strada
Series
Pub. Date
1954.
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.