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 in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...

Cirque du Lune is in town, and Phineas and Ferb can't wait to see the the show. Then it's cancelled, so they put on their own circus.

Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing both from danger and want. But Dandy grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre - which awaits the return of the last

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A traveling circus arrives, sets up its village of tents, performs for the crowd, and then moves on again.

After being tricked into joining a circus, an arrogant lion escapes and returns to the junlge where he lives peacefully with the animals he used to terrorize.

"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--

Tom tells all about his bicycle, his ride to work past trucks, cars, and even elephants, and his work as a circus performer.

Paddington Bear and the Brown family go to the circus, where Paddington ends up as part of the trapeze act.

A young boy, who is a member of an acrobat family, describes the people and activities of his circus home.