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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves , and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for...
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...
3) The mermaid
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.
Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling...
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.
Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling...
Author
Series
Magnolia says don't! volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Magnolia returns to explain the many downsides to bringing a circus to a local library"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
An ounce of courage. A split-second leap of faith. Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life--one that's reimagined from what they might have become. In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond theconfines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures to call her own, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago...
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Language
English
Description
"In 1911, Europe's strongest woman, Mabel MacGinnis, loses everything she's ever known and sets off for America in hopes of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. When circus aerialist Isabella Moreau's daughter suddenly appears, she is forced to face the truth of where, and in what, she derives her worth"--
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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's 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 found the...
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Series
Publisher
Splinter
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
9) 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.
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
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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Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Rev. and expanded library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy and his dragon go to the circus where the dragon performs some unexpected tricks on a high wire. Includes reading activities.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.
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.
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Enter at your own risk—and discover the greatest show unearthed in this explosive, darkly imaginative debut fantasy ... For humans, the circus is a place filled with wonder and amazement. For Harrow, though, it's a place to hide from those who slaughtered her entire clan. Disguising her abilities as part of her act has kept her true identity safe for years. Until he arrives. A strange new attraction with no name, no memory of who—or even what—he...
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.
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