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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The traveling Medici Bros. circus is made up of a ragtag group. There's Miss Atlantis, the resident mermaid, who is trying to find her voice. And Rongo, a strongman juggling more duites than he can keep track of. There's also a brokenhearted family in need of some healing: Holt -a former Stallion Star and war veteran; his daughter, Milly- a budding scientist with little interest in taking up the family act; and her little brother Joe -a clumsy kid...
3) Dumbo
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
When Dumbo the baby circus elephant is separated from his mother, he will need help from his friends and belief in himself to find his way back to her.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When circus owner Mike decides Pete the poodle has grown too old to continue as the starring act, Pete forms an unlikely alliance with a young grizzly bear, who only wants to go home to the woods.
5) The surge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
7) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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.
9) Saving Lilly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Erin Wrenn is determined to save an elephant named Lilly from being sold by a circus to a hunting park.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When Smalls and his friends are forced to join a traveling circus, they endure miserable conditions until Bertie Magnificence and Smalls devise an escape plan.
11) Circus
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
Leaping lizards, marching snakes, a bear on the high wire, and others perform in a somewhat unusual circus.
Author
Series
Usborne very first reading volume 12
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Eddy the electric eel saves the day when the lights in the undersea circus malfunction. Twelfth in a series of 15 rhyming stories developed to help children learn to read. Each book is designed for an adult and child to read together and introduces new letters or reading patterns and reinforces material from previous books. Includes puzzles to reinforce new skills, and guidance notes on reading with children.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
After being tricked into joining the circus, an arrogant lion escapes and returns to the jungle where he lives peacefully with the animals he used to terrorize.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marvin the marmoset resents being the object of ridicule by his family and friends, but when they put on a circus, he knows he must conquer his fear of heights in order to gain their respect.
20) Freddy the pilot
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Freddy the pig and his animal friends take to the air to save Mr. Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic book tycoon.