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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Circuses, Carnivals, and Sideshows
Quirky Books
Rainy Day Reads
Read-Alikes for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Quirky Books
Rainy Day Reads
Read-Alikes for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
A circus, titled Le Cirque des Reve, comes to town out of the blue and without warning. Within its tents, young magicians Celia and Marco compete to be the best, having done so since childhood. However, under the backdrop of their intense...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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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...
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Kingmaker chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Catalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the gods-and her homicidal mother-have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon...
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When the traveling circus comes to down and its star attraction and his trainer go missing, P.I. Bernie Little and his companion Chet are on the case. Hired by Popo the Clown, Bernie and Chet discover that there are some dangerous people behind the disappearances, people who will go at any length to make the sleuthing duo disappear, too.
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"READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost...
7) Geek love
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English
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Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, the proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results, in a new edition of the acclaimed cult classic.
9) Circus 1-2-3
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"1, 2, 3 and more circus performers give an amazing show. Watch them in the ring, on the high wire, on their bikes, and on the flying trapeze. Step right up and count with us!"--Back cover.
10) Pru's diary
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Lucky, Abigail, and Pru are traveling to a circus exhibition with El Circo dos Grillos where Pru gets to perform a clown act, but Catalina keeps acting like her performance is going to be better than Pru's.
13) Meridon: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As the heir to the great estate comes home at last, Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy bareback rider. The half-remembered vision of another life burns in her heart, even as her beloved sister, Dandy, risks everything for their future. Alone, Meridon follows the urgings of her dream, riding in the moonlight past the rusted gates, up the winding drive to a house'clutching the golden clasp of the necklace that was...
15) Boneyard
Author
Series
Deadlands (Macmillan) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The newest book based on the hit Weird West RPG franchise Deadlands! Step right up to see the oddities and marvels of The Blackstone Family Circus and Travelling Wonder Show! Gasp at pit wasps the size of a mans forearm. Beware the pumpkin-headed corn stalker, lest it plant its roots in you! Annie Pearl is the keeper of oddities, the mistress of monsters. Her unique collection of creatures is one of the circuss star attractions, drawing wide-eyed...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A tightrope artiste, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in the hope of finding the child.
"Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child...
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Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated....
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