Gombač, Žiga X.
Summary: "Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMBarnett, Mac
Summary: To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: A storm brings a floating circus to the City of Clouds, and when Harper and her friends attend they move ever closer to the secret of her origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURWitherspoon, Reese
Summary: Busy Betty has always been busy. Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she's throwing her mom a birthday party. Shhh . . . It's a surprise! Then Betty and her best friend, Mae, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mom a circus surprise party?! It will be the greatest day in the history of the universe! Everything is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WITGruen, Sara.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUSchultz, Erica
Summary: Cowgirl Dorothy and her horse, Toto, are taking the Yellow Dust Road on the way to the Great Wiz Kid's Emerald Circus of Oz for auditions, and along the way she meets Tinny, Crow, Leo, and Strega West who are also looking to audition--but in the morning Strega has disappeared, along with Dorothy's lucky silver spurs, and Dorothy must summon her inner courage to perform her best at the audition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARPeters, Stephanie True
Summary: In this graphic novel loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," an orphaned bear cub named Glee finds a new home in a traveling circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARBerg, Esther van den
Summary: "Welcome to Kiki's Circus! All the animal friends will show you a cute trick. But wait! First, they have to use the potty. Look at Beaver making a hoop spin after washing her paws or Squirrel going on his unicycle after a quick pee! And Kiki...what's your trick? Oh, using the toilet is not so difficult or scary after all!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2023
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Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETKlise, Kate.
Summary: The circus goes to sea: Many surprises are in store when Miss Flora Endora Eliza LaBuena LaPasta invites Sir Sidney's Circus to travel and perform aboard her elegant ship, the SS Spaghetti.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KLIFrazee, Marla
Summary: A wordless picture book in which the farmer visits the little clown and the monkey, and meets the rest of the circus family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRAKlise, Kate.
Summary: The show must go on!: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KLIMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Georges Seurat, rhyming text describes a variety of activities that fill one day, beginning at the shore and ending with a night at the circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERBridwell, Norman.
Summary: Clifford and Emily Elizabeth helping when the circus comes to town. As always Clifford saves the day. The pictures are bright and engaging and the book describes many different aspects of the circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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Summary: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages! It's the most amazing day on earth: the first day of school! It can be a daunting prospect, but don't worry - your big brother can show you the ropes. Join a nervous boy and his enthusiastic older brother as they navigate the highs and lows of a first day at school . . . except this school is a big top, and the teacher is named Miss Stupendous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: Late one evening as the stars begin to twinkle, Harper and her friends are flying on her magic scarlet umbrella when they see a girl running on air. She leads them to the Circus of Dreams, a menagerie of wonders suspended in the sky. But as the friends learn about the Circus of Dreams, they discover an important secret about Harper's past that could change everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BURDawson, J. R.
Summary: "If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."--Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway Ringmaster -- Rin, to those who know her best -- can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWOppel, Kenneth
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OPPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OPPWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: A vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets--beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s...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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WISRudholm, Ingar.
Summary: Story centers around a shy 14 year old boy named Flynn Parkes who is kidnapped by a traveling circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUDWong, Khan
Summary: 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 to be lost in the party. Jes lands a circus job, but when catches the attention of Niko, the crime boss who owns the resort-casino, he must do anything and everything asked of him, or face vivisection....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WONDockray, Tracy.
Summary: "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"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011
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Summary: A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE No Wordsl FrazeeGruen, Sara.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2006