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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is 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
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performance, come to the rescue when a greedy con artist takes over the management of the circus.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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...
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Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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, and The Amazing Flying Olivia.
11) Pegasus: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children - Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
14) Slow dollar
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott, a lawyer, district judge, and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, someone commits murder. As Deborah investigates, she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the circus tents are raised on the outskirts of Roanoke in 1890, nurse Ella Beckley arrives to tend a Gypsy girl under the watchful eye of Charlie Lionheart, a guardian who bears a striking resemblance to the child and protects the baby with a love that awakens a hope in Ella that goodness may yet reign"--
16) Oliver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
18) My bike
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tom tells all about his bicycle, his ride to work past trucks, cars, and even elephants, and his work as a circus performer.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and, as the greatest tiger trainer in history, fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.
It's 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to...
Author
Series
Magnolia says don't! volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia returns to explain the many downsides to bringing a circus to a local library"--
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