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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
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"--
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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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" for 2016 • 2017 Ohioana Book Award Winner in Fiction
“Marisa Silver’s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just...
“Marisa Silver’s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Restless after ten years with P.T. Barnum's American Museum, Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, is asked by the humbug king to discern the activities of a mysterious veiled woman who has captured the obsessions of those she meets.
Author
Publisher
Viking/Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Combining images and terms for different kinds of pastas and varying circus performers, this book will teach young ones those concepts along with highlighting the alphabet.
Author
Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the family, doesn't show an interest in circus tricks and loud...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and enchanting debut novel about an orphan girl who discovers a magical circus, perfect for fans of Kelly Barnhill and Rebecca Stead! Maddy Adriana knows that magic is real. All her life, her heart has pulled her towards things too perfect to be ordinary. One day, that tug leads her to a magical street circus, hidden in plain sight among the canals and boardwalks of Venice Beach. For the first time in Maddy's life, she finally feels like...
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