Lewis Tully is a circus man who has survived a wide variety of disasters and as he closes his career, he assembles an unusual band of characters for one last hurrah.
Thumbkin helps everyone in the circus, from the lion tamer and the clowns to the bareback rider and the tightrope walker, and soon he becomes the hit of the show.
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy try to help out the Flying Fortunatos, an acrobatic troupe with a very shabby traveling circus, by identifying the marvelous, hooded trapeze artist they spied rehearsing.
Sixteen-year-old Jules Maroni finally gets a chance to pursue her dream of following her family onto the high wire when the Maroni aerialist troupe is hired by the new Cirque American, but the presence of the Flying Garcias, the Maronis' rivals and sworn enemies, and the appearance of bad luck talismans, threaten to derail her future. Jules teams up with Remy Garcia to try to find out who is planting the talismans before both Jules and her dream fall into the nets.
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.
A small dog, abandoned near a trash dump and captured by a dog catcher, finds a home for herself when she is befriended by a circus clown whose act needs improving.
