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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 31
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1992, c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew joins the circus in order to investigate the mystery surrounding a gold charm bracelet and a young orphaned aerialist.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At school, Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how, when she went to the circus and all the performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, The Amazing Flying Olivia, and more.
9) Slow dollar
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott, a lawyer, district judge, and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, someone commits murder. As Deborah investigates, she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous...
10) The circus scare
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 7
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2010, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friends Bess and George decide to investigate when they notice a lot of the performers with the circus are missing costume pieces and props.
11) Wolf won't bite!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Three little circus pigs capture a wild wolf and make him do outrageous tricks, safe in the belief that he would never bite them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and, as the greatest tiger trainer in history, fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.
It's 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to...
14) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miss Bindergarten's kindergarten puts on a circus, handling everything from building the sets to performing the numbers. Colored text emphasizes the letters of the alphabet in order.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
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