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181) Sawdust in His Shoes
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An outsider becomes a hero and a boy becomes a man in this classic coming-of-age tale from the heyday of the three-ring circus, by three-time Newbery Honor Book author Eloise Jarvis McGraw. The circus is all young Joe Lang knows. The third generation of a circus family, he becomes a star bareback rider by the time he turns fifteen. But when his father, a lion-tamer, is killed by one of his cats, Joe becomes an orphan and is sent away to a vocational...
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ge : 9-12 ans Niveau de lecture : CM1-6e
Comment surmonter son manque de confiance en soi lorsque l'on a deux mains gauches ?
Noémie a toujours été maladroite. Très maladroite. Sans le vouloir, dès ses premiers pas, elle provoque des désastres en cascade. Et ça ne s'arrange pas avec le temps. Sous le regard mi-attendri, mi-atterré, de ses parents, face aux moqueries de ses camarades de classe, Noémie se sent bien seule... Jusqu'à ce jour...
184) Little Louie
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Louie is one special dog. His tongue likes to hang out of his mouth, and his extra-long legs make him pretty clumsy. Still, Louie dreams of being a champion dog like his brothers. Louie spends most of his time playing with his favorite toy-his ball. He can bounce it and toss it, and soon he hopes to balance on it. One day, Louie goes to cheer on his brothers at the dog show and slips on his ball into the center of the stage. But what will the crowd...
185) The Wonders
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On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.
Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle-of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories-human...
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Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. It's not ideal: his best friend, Manny, is eighty-one years old. But life as usual turns upside down when Master Melville's Medicine Show comes to town. Sullivan's excitement at finding performers his own age dissolves into dread when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned in the traveling show's caravan. As his fears subside,...
188) Remarkables
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[2019]
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A wordless picture book in which a boy meets an orphaned mermaid and invites her to join his circus family.
189) Acrobaddict
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Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead. This story goes beyond addiction. It is about the fragility and tenacity of the human spirit and how that spirit can redeem each and every one of us by helping to push us through the darkness, whether the darkness is from death, divorce, or the disease of addiction. Acrobaddict is a story...
190) Second banana
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2015.
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Oop, a gorilla, is second banana to the Amazing Bubbles, a monkey, until one day, Bubbles finds himself in trouble and Oop has to save the day.
191) The bear's surprise
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2015.
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Waking up from his long winter's nap, Little Bear searches for his father along a forest path that leads him to a mysterious cave, an exciting circus, and a family surprise.
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Originally published as: SPELLBINDER: The Life of Harry Houdini. He was born Ehrich Weiss but, at an early age, he chose another name for himself. He wanted a name to suit his career of magic and entertainment and he chose a name that paid homage to one of the legendary magicians of all time: Robert Houdin. His illusions and escapes were more astonishing and more challenging than anyone had ever done before and he eclipsed the names of all other magicians...
194) Big top bonanza
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[2023]
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"Junior is in for a BARKing big adventure when the circus comes to town!"--
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[2024]
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Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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An artfully-wrought memoir of an orphan boy who became a world-famous acrobat under the thumb of China's Communist regime.
In 1949, when much of China's population was starving under the reign of Communist leader Mao Zedong, two-year-old Jingjing Xue was dropped off at a Shanghai orphanage. At nine years old, following the Communist Revolution when acrobats were pushed to the lowest stratum of society, the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe had to turn to...
199) Moose on a mission
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2021.
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"Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Woods, and his slightly more intelligent sidekick, Owlfred, are on the case again! There's big news in the Big Woods! The circus is in town, Granny Moose is coming to visit, and a mysterious robber is on the loose. When Agent Moose learns that someone is putting the squeeze on innocent animals, he and Owlfred rush to investigate, with Granny along for the ride! Can they solve this mystery before...
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