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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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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...
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Kingmaker chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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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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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...
5) 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.
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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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Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The author of We've Got a Job explores the world of social circus-a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony, in St. Louis, whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and Circus Galilee in Israel, whose participants and Jews and Arabs. As the kids' relationships...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Tessa Fontaines astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discoverythrough her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother
10) Trapeze
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Describes the author's novice plunge into the abstract and intensely competitive world of the contemporary circus while tracing the history of circus performance and the current Cirque du Soleil-fueled renewal of circus popularity.
13) Solstrom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Language
English
Description
The entire 13-part series of world renowned shows, reimagined in an entirely new way. A magical combination of the supernatural, acrobatics, and comedy.
14) Circus 1-2-3
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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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
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English
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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...
19) Meridon: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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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...
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