Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.
Circus Splendido has come to Pleasant Valley but so have pickpockets who are stealing wallets, cell phones, and jewelry from the audience as they watch the performances, so the police chief asks Jerry and Maya for help again in collecting ...
Emily Arnold McCully’s sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" in which a crocodile runs away from the circus to get help from the physician-turned-veterinarian, who gives him back his smile.
"A beguiling first novel"—Gregory Maguire in the New York Times "Takes readers to a marvelous place.”—The Wall Street Journal Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying ...
This beautiful new edition of Tomie dePaola’s 1978 classic retelling of a French legend stars a little juggler whose unique talent leads him to what might be a Christmas miracle.
With buoyant rhymes and brilliantly caricatured illustrations evoking the early nineteenth century, Chris Van Dusen presents a hugely entertaining tale about the bonds of community?—?and a hidden-pictures spread for eagle-eyed readers of ...
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