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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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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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Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Blood and Circuses, the next historical mystery featuring an unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher uncover the truth without losing her life?
Looking for a thrilling detective novel? This story is:
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.
4) Circus
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Leaping lizards, marching snakes, a bear on the high wire, and others perform in a somewhat unusual circus.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Circus fun": See performances by trapeze artists, acrobats, elephants and more! Go behind the scenes with Mister Rogers and learn how clowns put on their make-up and talk with some of the many other people who work at the circus. "Music adventure": Mister Rogers visits a friend who has a fascinating collection of musical instruments from around the world.
9) Math circus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
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.
12) Circus fun
Author
Publisher
Modern Curriculum Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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13) Nightmare alley
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Language
English
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Hanging around a traveling carnival, Stan Carlisle develops a mentalist act which gradually leads to his ruin.
14) Tree-ring circus
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The circus is in town! But when the animals get loose, the town is a circus. Can Thomas help round the animals up?"--P. [4] of cover.
Thomas is excited to see the circus in town, but when the animals get loose, Thomas must help round the animals up before the town itself becomes a circus.
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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...
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