Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Heartbreaking." - Kirkus Reviews
"Amanda Davis writes gently, even poetically about extraordinary brutality. She has a distinctively creepy, even noirish sensibility." - New York Times Book Review
"An utterly unique take on what it means to run away and join a circus." - Elizabeth Strout, author of AMY AND ISABELLE
"This book is a circus Pygmalion -- a spectacular tale of injury, heartbreak, and metamorphosis." - Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra...
5) Secret heart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trix's life in boarding school as an orphan charity case has been hard but when an alluring young Ringmaster invites her, a gymnast, to join Circus Galacticus she gains an entire universe of deadly enemies and potential friends, along with a chance to unravel secrets of her own past.
Author
Series
Horse crazy ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Currawong Creek, Australia, best friends Bonnie and Sam, who share a mutual love of horses, enhance their trick-riding skills when a traveling circus comes to town.
13) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Formats
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.
17) Circus shapes
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Circus animals and performers getting ready for a show form basic geometric shapes.
20) August acrobat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy try to help out the Flying Fortunatos, an acrobatic troupe with a very shabby traveling circus, by identifying the marvelous, hooded trapeze artist they spied rehearsing.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request