P.J. and Carlos find a summer job with Bart Mart's flying circus, where they not only learn to fly, but they catch the man who is causing Bart a lot of problems.
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. Includes reading group discussion guide.
an encyclopedia of history's most wondrous and curiously strange performers
Hartzman, Marc
2005
Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that profile a range of America's strangest human curiosities, from Tom Thumb and Chang and Eng, to Myrtle Corbin, the four-legged woman, and Prince Randian, the human torso.
In a world made uncertain by "the Chaos," two time-traveling boys, fifteen-year-old Timon and eleven-year-old Eden, seek to protect a magic talisman, aided by twelve-year-old Garland, a member of a traveling circus known as Maddigan's Fantasia.
A young girl tells what life is like growing up in the circus and training to become a tightrope aerialist. Includes photographs and information about circuses, past and present.