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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
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Dessa and her two companions find refuge in a stable, the owner of the inn is making a deal with the smugglers and the Captain Drake and the royal guard ride in to the yard, causing chases, captures, mishaps, and narrow escapes.
6) Meridon
Author
Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
"Here is a dark, passionate tapestry of a young woman's struggle from poverty to wealth . . .of a rebellious heart's tempestuous journey toward love . . . set in the savage contrasts of Georgian England, a time alive with treachery, grandeur and intrigue." --back flap.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 28
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Joy Winslow is convinced her inheritance has been stolen by the greedy couple who took her and her brother, Travis, in after their parents' death. When Travis leaves to find work, Joy endures without him for only a short time before she runs away. Joy meets Chase Gallagher when he rescues her from a dangerous situation. Chase helps her find work in a circus, performing with the big cats. Torn by family loyalty, love for Chase, and a desire for revenge,...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the run from the Queen's Dragons and struggling to track down Dessa's missing twin brother, Dessa, Topper, and Fisk inadvertently rescue a prince and find that their actions have placed royal kingdoms and a romance at risk.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia ... Pronounced by the most eminent physician of the day to be "a true hybrid wherein the nature of woman presides...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Boundary lines: A feud has been simmering for years between two Montana families, and Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. But a threat from a common enemy forces feisty Jillian and irresistible Aaron to finally come a little bit closer. Now their historical mistrust is pitted against an unexpected passion neither is able to deny. They say good fences make good neighbors, but true love can easily tear...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Presents two novels in one volume, including "The Beast Master," in which Hosteen Storm emigrates to the planet Arzor after his home planet is destroyed, and "Lord of Thunder," in which Storm is sent to investigate the activities of the native tribes that have gathered in the country of the Peaks.
12) A bug's life
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true story of two albino African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a decades-long struggle to find them and to get justice for her family. The year was 1899, and the old people told the story: the place, a sweltering tobacco community in the Jim Crow South called Truevine, where everyone they knew was either a former slave or a child or grandchild of slaves. Though the narrative of George...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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