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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A retelling of Snow White and Rose Red in which teenage twins Ivory and Rosie battle evil religious extremists to save their loves and their circus family." --
Twins Rosie and Ivory have grown in the circus; their mother is the ringmaster. They're returning to Port End, the closest place to home they know. Yet something has changed: fundamentalist flyers paper the walls and preachers fill the squares, warning of shadows falling over the land. The...
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performance, come to the rescue when a greedy con artist takes over the management of the circus.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.
6) Circus
Author
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Series
Harper volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harper and her friends try to help the Wild Conductor win back his place in the Circus of Dreams, but when Harper is chosen, instead, she encounters a mystery.
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
Farmer books volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A nearly wordless picture book in which the farmer who returned the baby clown to the circus train is followed home by a playful circus monkey, leading to a wonderful new friendship.
Author
Series
Farmer books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A nearly wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who has bounced off the circus train, and takes very good care of him until he can reunite the tot with his clown family.
12) The untold
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the run from two bounty hunters in the Australian outback of 1921, Jessie reflects on her past as a circus rider, horse thief, cattle rustler, and convict while determinedly struggling to reunite with her child.
13) The good thieves
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the newest volume of her World Fantasy Award-winning short story collections, beloved author Jane Yolen's dark side has fully emerged. Her vivid, startling, and thrilling tales and poems of the supernatural--from icy-hearted witches to sometimes-innocent shapeshifters--reveal a classic storyteller at the height of her powers. Welcome to the Midnight Circus--and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yolen are not for the faint...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dudley Riggs didn't have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a wagon pulled by a polar bear. At the age of five, he graduated to a risque vaudeville act during the circus off- season; at eight, he outgrew his cutes (and his child stardom) and joined his high-flying parents on the trapeze. Eventually he had to learn...
16) Big top bonanza
Author
Series
Dog diaries (James Patterson) volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Junior is in for a BARKing big adventure when the circus comes to town!"--
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It's been described as a travesty of justice. A circus. An important battle for the American people. A monumental non-event. Whatever conclusion you come to by the end of this lecture, few events better exemplify the conflict of values in the late 1960s than the trial of these eight radicals.
18) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
332 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 352 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost...
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