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Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006
A USA Today Bestseller
A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz
Jacob Janowski's luck had run out--orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1931, Lilly Blackwood was sold to the circus. More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood inherits her parents' estate and returns home hoping to erase painful memories of strict rules and forbidden rooms. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and circus photos featuring a striking young girl."--
1931. Lilly Blackwood isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. Momma insists...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum/Anne Schwartz
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At school, Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how, when she went to the circus and all the performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, The Amazing Flying Olivia, and more.
10) Circus Mirandus
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--
12) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The pony is a dream come true for a little girl. But the dream shatters when he is taken from her. Though time passes as the pony makes the best of his new life in the circus, he never stops hoping to find the little girl. And the girl never stops looking for him.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes...
17) New friends
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ivan the gorilla draws colorful pictures to make his new friend Ruby smile"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Texas star herself -- Miss Lily Dare, the "fastest woman in the world" -- is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling. Unfortunately, she's also bringing a whole lot of trouble. As the Dahlias prepare for the annual Watermelon Festival -- where they will present the famous female aviatrix with her own Texas Star hibiscus -- rumors are flying. Dahlias president Liz Lacy learns that Miss Dare has been threatened and her plane sabotaged....