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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
4) Dumbo (1941)
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 64 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
7) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (190 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
El circo: La alegre cabalgata del Gran Circo Estrella desfila por el pueblo donde Cantinflas ejerce de zapatero remendón. Al pasar el cortejo por delante de la zapatería, Cantinflas queda prendado por la belleza de Rosalinda y decide entrar en el circo, de gorrón porque no tiene un centavo, para volver a verla. Tan grande es su amor que Cantinflas termina trabajando en el circo como mozo de pista. ¡A volar joven!: Aprovechando un permiso de...
Author
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
"To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Thanks to her good memory and splendid imagination, Mama Bear and her bear cub have been able to enjoy the circus ... from the outside. But as almost always happens in stories, there is no shortage of the cunning man who wants to profit: the fox tries to collect the amount of the tickets, although the bears did not enter. Oh, fox! You didn't have the wit of daddy bear and you got what you deserved!
13) EO
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls, thrilled to see the parade and the show, followed by the Sisters who care for them. The Old Women and Men, competing...
15) Toby Tyler
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angered at his stern uncle, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 14
Formats
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.
Author
Series
Spectacle volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
123 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural--until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. With few leads, a troupe full of secretive folk, and strange paranormal occurrences popping up around the circus, solving the case seems...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
Asian elephants Precious and Baba grow up in the wild as part of a big family, are captured and sold to a circus, separated, then reunited at a sanctuary. Includes facts about elephants and a list of organizations that help them.
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