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.

A young boy imagines the fantastic animals and incredible acts he will have for his greatest of all circuses.

Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.

When Patrick is sick and can't go to the circus, SpongeBob brings the circus to Patrick.

A peddler who sells caps by balancing them all on his head is invited to do an act in the circus.

Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.

As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.

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

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.