Summary: "In a rundown circus on the outskirts of Mexico City, 13 year-old Alma earns a living as a trapeze artist. When her fellow performers find out that she is pregnant, Alma is expelled from the circus. She lives on the streets until she meets a troupe of traveling puppeteers that preach the word of God. Alma sees a promise in them, a glimpse of hope. This is a story of a young girl's search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Desert Mountain Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANGGombač, 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 GOMHernández, Anabel
Summary: "Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández en su incesante búsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los cárteles de la droga en México, los cuales desde hace décadas tienen sumida a la nación en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grijalbo 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HERKlepeis, Alicia
Summary: "Discusses some of the world's most mystifying circus acts and the science behind them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.3 KLEBarnett, 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 BARMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILMacy, Beth
Summary: Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 MACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk MacySummary: Circus Dreams captures charismatic teen performers on a voyage of artistic and personal self-discovery as they fight to save the only traveling youth circus in the United States from closing forever. With a heartwarming story and great characters, this vibrant feature documentary is an inspiring testament to the power of youthful dreams. The film documents a year in the life of Circus Smirkus...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TaylorMade Productions 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CIRPeters, 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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Summary: "A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GERGruen, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUMoreci, Michael
Summary: "Before Batman trained him to be Robin, Dick Grayson was star of his family of trapeze artists, but when an enchanting new attraction opens nearby and threatens to lure away their remaining customers, Dick is among those drawn to its magical glow and may be too mesmerized to recognize the dangers ahead."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRASummary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREUhl, Xina M.
Summary: Like dancers in the sky, aerial silks athletes hang from long strips of fabric and perform acrobatics suspended from them with beauty, grace, and sheer physical skill. This captivating book encourages readers who may not have access to other sports to be physically and acrobatically active. It profiles the leading silks performers, circus arts organizations that teach courses, and places where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.3 UHLHetherington, Nydia
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 HETQuiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Contents: Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUIANONES-HINOJOSA, ALFREDO QUISuggs, Christine
Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUGSummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEBazaldua, Barbara
Summary: "When his colony is threatened by greedy grasshoppers, an ant named Flick searches for a band of warriors, who turn out to be circus performers. "--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISSummary: "Circus is a super-powered security force of entertainers with special abilities who keep villains off the streets by serving up justice with a side of razzle-dazzle. Despite their best efforts, a sinister organization named Kafka is gaining power through the world using grotesque monsters to carry out their plots. When Circus saves a mysterious boy from Kafka's grasp, the kid gets swept up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KARKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUMartin, Pedro
Summary: "Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2023