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Author
Series
Claude books volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Mr. and Mrs. Shinyshoes are away for the day, Claude, a small, plump dog, and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, share adventures in the park and at the circus.
22) Geek love
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At once a highly regarded novel and an enduring cult classic, "Geek Love" is the story of the Binewskis, a carnival family of human oddities. As Dunn charts their journey across the U.S. backwaters, their Machiavellian rivalries, and their galvanic effect on gawking crowds, she takes on everything from definitions of beauty to organized religion to family values.
Author
Series
Pentecost and Parker novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with a broken face, a bruised ego, and the solemn promise never again to let her heart get in the way of her job. But she called Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus's tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she...
25) MirrorMask
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After blaming herself for her mother's illness, Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, dreams that she is in a strange world with bizarre creatures and masked inhabitants.
Author
Series
Annie Szabo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The indomitable Annie Szabo has lost too many friends and loved ones, so the death of Margo Spanger hits hard. Margo, Annie's neighbor, was a cultural icon with money and fame. Maybe too much. She used one of her projects, a New Age circus, to fund a women's shelter. When Margo's partner, Lili, goes missing the day of Margo's death, the circus and shelter fall into disarray. It turns Annie's world upside down, too. Her daughter is a resident of the...
27) Open season 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Boog's friends can't make their annual getaway, he takes a trip by himself and trades places with a circus bear.
28) August acrobat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy try to help out the Flying Fortunatos, an acrobatic troupe with a very shabby traveling circus, by identifying the marvelous, hooded trapeze artist they spied rehearsing.
Publisher
Hearst Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Jay, Elisha and Tyler on a huge adventure into fun. You'll brave some of the world's fastest roller coasters, learn how to fly on the circus trapeze, go backstage at a mega-rock concert, and even step into the ring with a real WCW wrestler.
30) Shadows and fog
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by an inept mob of vigilantes, Kleinman, a cowardly clerk, is forced to search for a notorious murderer -- only to stumble upon Irmy, a sword-swallower running away from the circus and her clownish boyfriend. Determined to help her and eager to escape the vigilantes Kleinman abandons his search for the killer ... or so he thinks.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jacky Faber is framed as passing confidential U.S. information to the British. Forced to flee Boston, she goes undercover as a governess for a prominent Puritan family. When outed by a nosy postmaster, she deserts the respectability of her position, dons a leotard and slippers, and poses as a Russian tightrope walker in a traveling circus.
But the law soon catches up with her, and prospects do not look good. Through her many adventures, Jacky
...Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Sonora Webster, an orphan girl working at Doc Carver's traveling circus and her dream to dive horses off a forty-foot tower into a tank of water.
33) Luna
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local Friesian farm horse that she names Luna, and together the two perform a heroic act that changes their futures for the better. Includes facts about Friesian horses.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (86 min., 89 min., 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madagascar: A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
Madagascar 2: The castaways are back together--and still lost! Stranded in the middle of Africa, they soon learn that all is not as it seems.
Madagascar...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 9
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lionel Hawkins is a magician whose act is only partially sleight of hand. The rest is real magic. He's an Elemental Magician with the power to persuade the Elementals of Air to help him create amazing illusions. It doesn't take long before his assistant, acrobat Katie Langford, notices that he's no ordinary magician — and for Lionel to discover that she's no ordinary acrobat, but rather an untrained and unawakened Fire Magician. She's also on the...
Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling kitty boy goes to the circus!
In his newest adventure, the irresistible Skippyjon Jones swings out of his closet and into the spectacular Cirque de Ole, where his pals, the Chimichango gang, perform feats of derring-do. There are many acts to see, but only Skippito the Strong can perform the trickiest stunt of all. Judy Schachner's vivacious art and riotous text make for mucho read-aloud fun.
Come...
In his newest adventure, the irresistible Skippyjon Jones swings out of his closet and into the spectacular Cirque de Ole, where his pals, the Chimichango gang, perform feats of derring-do. There are many acts to see, but only Skippito the Strong can perform the trickiest stunt of all. Judy Schachner's vivacious art and riotous text make for mucho read-aloud fun.
Come...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad and the ever wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add, and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.
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...
40) Freaks
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 62 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
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