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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
aWhen ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski recalls his early years when fate brought him to work in a traveling circus during the Depression, he is filled with memories of Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, Rosie, the elephant who couldn't follow instructions, and the love and trust that sealed their survival
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1984
Language
English
Description
American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that features literate chimpanzees, tragic clowns, idealist brigands, a structuralist Siberian shaman, and a six-foot, two-inch blond aerialist who is part swan and part woman
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the run from the Queen's Dragons and struggling to track down Dessa's missing twin brother, Dessa, Topper, and Fisk inadvertently rescue a prince and find that their actions have placed royal kingdoms and a romance at risk.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 28
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Family tragedy separates Joy Winslow from her brother Travis, and her resultant desire for revenge may destroy the happiness she feels in working with big cats in a traveling circus and her growing relationship with Chase.
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old orphaned acrobat Dessa, who is searching for her long-lost twin brother, reluctantly agrees to help Topper, the juggler of the circus she works for, and Fisk, the strongman, rob the royal treasury.
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
9) The untold
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody in the family, except Aunt Ruth, talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who had been swallowed up by the circus then spit out as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot free for killing her husband. Just as no one talks about the bruises Ellen can't hide"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Boundary lines: A feud has been simmering for years between two Montana families, and Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. But a threat from a common enemy forces feisty Jillian and irresistible Aaron to finally come a little bit closer. Now their historical mistrust is pitted against an unexpected passion neither is able to deny. They say good fences make good neighbors, but true love can easily tear...
12) The gracekeepers
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
As a gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining...
13) Untamed
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jo Wilder had the heart of a lion and the temper of a wildcat. When Keane Prescott crossed her path, she bared her claws. Jo was certain her charming new boss imperiled everything she cared for, but she couldn't deny the attraction between them. Though Keane's kisses left her breathless, it was his tenderness that threatened to tame her heart.
14) The circus train
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite the limitations of her wheelchair. Then her unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past. As World War II escalates around them over...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confi nes of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago World’s Fair. There, a chance encounter triggers her destiny—a life with a famed showman by the name of John Ringling. A quarter of a century later, Lady Rosamund Easling...
Author
Series
Will Rees volume 8
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier. On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in Minnesota in 2015, Cecily Larson, 94, breaks her hip and, confined to a hospital bed, realizes time may be running out to share the secret she's kept for her entire life, which stems from her childhood. At age seven, Cecily was taken from a Chicago orphanage to be trained as a bareback rider in a traveling circus. Baker makes clear that the secret, which is revealed to the reader later on, will impact Cecily's widowed daughter Liz,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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...
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