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1) "Hey Rube"
Author
Publisher
B.J. Chipman
Pub. Date
1933
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pint-sized Seattle middle school teacher and gay dating blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister are invited to a fundraiser for Bakers Without Borders. The celebrity performer, Kennedy Osaka, is the artistic director of Mysterium, an upscale circus arts show combining magic, acrobatics, and a Michelin-star dinner. But Kennedy is a no-show--until she's found dead in her hotel suite. When frenemy Sarah Lee is discovered in the room with...
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
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 585 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The entire 13-part series of world renowned shows, reimagined in an entirely new way. A magical combination of the supernatural, acrobatics, and comedy.
6) Trapeze
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily Larson's hidden life, Ellen Baker tenderly examines personal determination, lost love, family ties, and our innate need to discover our own truth." — Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours and Before and After
Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours
...10) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Gideon Davorin's Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need...
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...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
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 colour) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Drake remembers his dark past as a young knight in the service of King Roderick. Long-ago intrigues may hold clues that will help Drake capture the three thieves -- and could spell the end of Dessa's quest to find her long-lost twin brother.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Primera ed.
Physical Desc
568 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Bienvenidos al Circo de los Sueños. Pero detrás de estas maravillosas escenas existe una feroz competencia -- un duelo entre dos magos jóvenes, Celia y Marco, que han sido entrenados desde la infancia para competir en un 'juego'. Obligados a participar por sus caprichosos amos, sin que ellos lo sepan, éste es un juego en el que sólo uno puede sobrevivir y el circo no es más que el escenario para una extraordinaria batalla de imaginación y...
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 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her twin brother -- or the mysterious man who snatched him away when they were just children. Meanwhile, Topper, the circus juggler, recruits Dessa and...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on the run from the Queen's Dragons, Dessa rescues a kidnapped prince. But when his father insists on thanking her and her companions, the attention could mean danger.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on an fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations to come.
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 47 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dives into the story of how the Ringling brothers, five of seven Wisconsin-born sons of a German immigrant harness maker, came to be multi-millionaires, acquiring Barunum & Bailey and becoming the greatest circus producers in the world. Rare images and footage recall the glory days of the old-style circus, while Ringling Brothers company historians detail how the brothers helped transform their enterprise into a legendary production that would outlast...
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