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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily Pruitt loves her grandparents, but she doesn't love the circus -- and the circus is their life. She's perfectly happy to stay with her father, away from her neglectful mother and her grandfather's elephant, Queenie Grace. Queenie Grace, a circus elephant, is happy to have Grandpa Bill as her keeper. She has had cruel keepers in the past, but Bill is her friend and treats her with love and respect. She doesn't quite understand...
3) Liar's circus: a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail meets a work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology: Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside President Trump's rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base"--
4) Flyboy
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After closeted trans teenager Asher is sent to Catholic school, his only escape is at night when he dreams of the Midnight Circus. He assumes it's not real until his Midnight Circus trapeze rival walks into his classroom, and he learns both that the circus is real, and his time there is limited. Desperate, he sets both worlds on a collision course that endangers all he holds dear. Now he must decide how far he'll go, and if he can face his biggest...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rakish fairy meets the real Juliet behind Shakespeare's famous tragedy. A jewelry artist travels to the past to meet a successful silver-smith. The addled crew of a ship at sea discovers a mysterious merman. More than one ignored princess finds her match in the most unlikely men. From ecstasy to tragedy, with love blossoming shyly, love at first sight, and even love borne of practical necessity--beloved fantasist Jane Yolen's newest collection...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
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
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster's will until he decides to take the big boss down.
Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon Persephone-9. Here, everyone just wants...
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Four children must uncover the evil Nicholas Rattigan's newest dastardly scheme, wage war with a rival freak show, and deal with a spy who may have infiltrated their happy home. Sam, Philippa, Thomas, and Max have just started to recover from their capture and subsequent escape from Rattigan. But the children's lives don't stay quiet for long. A slew of bank robberies is terrorizing the city. And when Professor Farnum, the ringmaster of the museum's...
13) Belladonna
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1757 England, clever but unschooled Thomas Rose helps the spirited Ling seek Belladonna, the horse she rode in the circus, and in their quest they meet painter George Stubbs who euthanizes animals to study their anatomy.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's been described as a travesty of justice. A circus. An important battle for the American people. A monumental non-event. Whatever conclusion you come to by the end of this lecture, few events better exemplify the conflict of values in the late 1960s than the trial of these eight radicals.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea...
16) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
From the save-the-date to the sendoff, each aspect of your wedding offers a chance to add your personal stamp. Demos shows you how to mix your unique vision with vintage touches. Simple DIY projects make it easy to get a vintage look and creating a meaningful celebration that's uniquely you.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Agent Moose volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Woods, and his slightly more intelligent sidekick, Owlfred, are on the case again! There's big news in the Big Woods! The circus is in town, Granny Moose is coming to visit, and a mysterious robber is on the loose. When Agent Moose learns that someone is putting the squeeze on innocent animals, he and Owlfred rush to investigate, with Granny along for the ride! Can they solve this mystery before...
Author
Publisher
HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"His little sister joins the circus. His parents buy a nerdy horse. He's surrounded by hundreds of men dressed up as Ernest Hemingway. He tries to order a monkey through the mail. And now his baby is eating dog food. Matt Geiger's award-winning stories reveal the sublime in the mundane and the comical in the banal. There is existential dread. There is festivity amid detritus. There are moments of genuine introspection on what it means to be human....
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