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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...
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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
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Louise Trapeze volume 1
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English
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"Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"--
4) Oliver
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English
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
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English
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"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"--
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Amazing Stardust Friends volume 1
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2015.
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English
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Bella, Carly, and Allie live and work at the Stardust Circus, and when Marlo arrives, eager to make friends and become part of the show, she tries aerial arts, juggling, and even dog training as she tries to find her own special talent, with lots of help from the other girls.
7) Barkley
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[1975]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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When he gets too old to perform his act in the circus, Barkley tries to find something else to do.
8) Be a star!
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2015.
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English
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Allie, Bella, Carly, and Marlo, eight-year-old performers in the Stardust Circus, are normally best friends--but when a film crew comes to do a television special on the circus, Allie's dreams of being a Hollywood star threaten to drive a wedge between them.
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"On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it's for Lilly's own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time--and sold to the circus sideshow. More than two decades...
10) The Boundless
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English
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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.
12) Circus
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[1992]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Leaping lizards, marching snakes, a bear on the high wire, and others perform in a somewhat unusual circus.
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Three-ring rascals volume 2
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2014.
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English
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As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.
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Pete and Penny's pizza puzzles volume 4
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English
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The circus is in town and Nine-year-old Pete and eleven-year-old Penny Pizzarelli are anxious to see it. But after a monkey shows up at the pizza shop with a coded message, the brother and sister uncover a circus crook. Can the two save the circus?
16) Ghost boy
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Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
17) Wolf won't bite!
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2012.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Three little circus pigs capture a wild wolf and make him do outrageous tricks, safe in the belief that he would never bite them.
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2015.
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148 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Joining his uncle for a summer at the circus, Ray becomes a clown-in-training, but strange things start happening and he wonders about a place called "Clown Street" that even the other clowns are afraid to go to.
20) I spy a circus
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[2003]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Characters locate a variety of hidden objects as they make a toy circus.
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