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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Everyone in the circus loves to perform – except for Adam, the 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...
63) A bug's life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"When his colony is threatened by greedy grasshoppers, an ant named Flick searches for a band of warriors, who turn out to be circus performers"--
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 28
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When a family tragedy leaves young Joy and Travis Winslow at the mercy of greedy relative, they flee a life of certain servitude. Separated from her brother, Joy is rescued from dangerous vagrants by a handsome young circus performer. Chase takes her under his wing and helps her find work in a traveling circus.
65) The untold
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
66) Black butler. #6
Author
Series
Black butler volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
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The cheer of the holidays has passed, but the Noah's Ark traveling circus has been making the rounds, bringing fun and joy to children of all ages. However, as the ringmaster's cries fade away, a disturbing trend begins to surface in the wake of the colourful entourage. Children seem to disappear whenever the circus packs up for its next destination, and there are no clues---or corpses---to be found. But when the situation calls for Ciel and Sebastian...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Much has been written about P. T. Barnum -- legendary showman, entrepreneur, marketing genius, and one of the most famous nineteenth-century personalities. For those who lived in Barnum's shadow, however, life was complex. P. T. Barnum's two families -- his family at home, including his two wives and his daughters, and his family at work, including Little People, a giantess, an opera singer, and many sideshow entertainers -- suffered greatly from...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Mystery, Inc.'s own Fred Jones has always dreamed of performing death-defying acrobatics under the big top. So when the gang stumbles across the Brancusi Circus, he leaps at the chance to check it out. The circus ringleader is desperate for the gang's help in solving a mystery. A werewolf has been terrorizing the performers and stealing jewelry from the audience members. Now it's up to the kids from Mystery, Inc. to solve this mystical mystery! Can...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Inside her father's circus at the dawn of the twentieth century, a spirited Canadian girl fights for equality and the right to her inheritance.
"This middle--grade novel is about an irrepressible girl thrust into challenging circumstances. Her great-aunt Ada has died and a committee of relatives is bent on vulturing Ephemia's education trust fund for themselves. Twelve-year-old Effy's only hope is to locate and dazzle her long lost poppa before time...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn't quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small town carnivals and big city sideshows--is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks (produced by MGM of all studios in 1932 and directed by Tod Browning, his first feature after the horror classic Dracula), in which all of the sideshow performers were real, not actors. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie's...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their...
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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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...
79) La vie en rose
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or alcohol, and she was always in search of true love. Middleweight...
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