Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Appears on these lists
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
Formats
Description
When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.
3) The surge
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 2
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
Series
Storm runners volume 1
Formats
Description
"Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have just survived Hurricane Emily, the storm of the century, but their troubles are just beginning. Although they've made it to the safety of Nicole's family's farm--the winter home of the Rossi Brothers' Circus--the floodwaters are rising and they need to reach higher ground. The circus's lions have escaped their cages, and a dangerous and unpredictable leopard is also on the loose. Have Chase and his friends...
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
6) Dumbo
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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.
7) Circus Train
Author
Formats
Description
Circus Train pulls in to town, and each kind of animal is in it's own brightly colored car.
Author
Series
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.
9) Dumbo
Author
Description
An adaptation of the Disney classic movie in which a big-eared elephant overcomes his fears and learns to fly with help from his friend.
10) Dumbo
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When a baby elephant is born with oversized ears, the other circus animals make fun of him, but after befriending a mouse, Dumbo shows the world just what his ears can do.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Me llamo Ivǹ. Soy un gorila. No es tan sencillo como parece."
"When Iván, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life."--Publisher.
15) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
17) Not my circus
Author
Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
"Olivia was supposed to buy eggs at the store. Instead, she bought a circus! Between food fights and a lack of potty training, her mom is not thrilled. When Mr. Victor refuses to take the animals back, it’s off to the zoo for Olivia's new friends . . . unless she can find a way to prove that she is in control of her circus. Janet Sumner Johnson...takes a simple idiom and turns it into a hilarious story of one girl’s love of animals, weaving in...
Author
Series
Usborne very first reading volume 12
Pub. Date
2010
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.