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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
5) Geek love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olympia, an albino hunchback dwarf, tells of a carnival family who breeds and trains their children for their freak show.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer meet and fall in love, but the secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer meet and fall in love, but the secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Dessa and her two companions find refuge in a stable, the owner of the inn is making a deal with the smugglers and the Captain Drake and the royal guard ride in to the yard, causing chases, captures, mishaps, and narrow escapes.
Author
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An addictive novel about power, fame, and a love that is threatened by a terrible secret. Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists, and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as...
11) The Dark Island
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling sixth installment of Scott Chantler's popular Three Thieves graphic novel series, the separate adventures of twins Dessa and Jared play out simultaneously and seem poised to intersect as the book ends. Dessa, along with Topper and Fisk, has managed a daring landing onto the flying island of Astaroth, where she hopes to find her long-lost brother. Instead, they discover a bizarre world where three children are being held by a mysterious...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 4
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) The iron hand
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 7
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After pulling a badly injured Captain Drake from the water, Nessa must decide whether or not she can trust him in the fight against Greyfalcon and if it is true that he has seen Jared.
Author
Series
Three Thieves volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
�2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dessa, Topper and Fisk, still searching for Dessa's missing twin brother, find themselves in a mess after Dessa accidently rescues a prince.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
16) The circus train
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward?
1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena—who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio—yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, her mind stronger than the limitations placed on her by society. Then her unconventional...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
609 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mystery, Inc.'s own Fred Jones has always dreamed of performing death-defying acrobatics under the big top. So when the gang stumbles across the Brancusi Circus, he leaps at the chance to check it out. The circus ringleader is desperate for the gang's help in solving a mystery. A werewolf has been terrorizing the performers and stealing jewelry from the audience members. Now it's up to the kids from Mystery, Inc. to solve this mystical mystery! Can...
