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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
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011]
Language
Français
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Dessa, Topper and Fisk arrive on the legendary island of Astaroth, and Dessa sets about finding her long-lost twin brother, Jared. Instead , she discovers a bizarre world beyond anything she could have ever imagined, wehre three children roam under the watchful eye of a mysterious and rarely seen man they call the Toymaker. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.
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.
11) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Mara has become used to the extraordinary. Roaming from place to place with Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Carnival, she longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. She gets her chance when the struggling sideshow sets up camp in the small town of Caudry, and she meets a gorgeous local guy named Gabe. But before long, Mara realizes there’s a dark presence lurking in the town that’s threatening the lives...
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
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
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The life and career of circus star Lillian Leitzel.
Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the story of trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century. Like some of today's stars, she was known to her vast public by just one name. Born into Dickensian circumstances, Leitzel became a princess and then a queen. At just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds, she was...
15) Circus Rosaire
Publisher
Distributed by Circus Rosaire, LLC
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Filmed over a 5-year period, this takes an intimate, behind the scenes look at the Circus Rosaire. With 9 generations of experience and an uncanny ability to communicate with their animals, the Rosaire family is struggling to survive in the modern age of entertainment.
16) 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...
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
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mirabelle and Meg Darius-Montford are twins and their mum and dad are famous circus acrobats. Mirabelle is fearless. She promises to be the most topsy-turvy, upside down acrobat of all. Meg does not. In fact, Meg is afraid of heights. Is Mirabelle afraid of anything? With her new grand show opening, Meg might be about to find out."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of ten surrendered canines that were adopted and trained by renowned circus performer Luciano Anastasini, who helped them to develop their respective talents as proud and happy circus dogs.
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