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1) The acrobat
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
'The acrobat works in a circus, but nobody notices him. He decides to leave and find a new audience, but even his very best tricks fail to catch anyone's attention. But just as the acrobat is about to give up hope altogether, something extraordinary happens to change his luck."--Back cover.
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Serafleana loves to jump, and when her family joins the traveling acrobatic troupe the Fleatastics, she dreams of having her own act. But her family wants her to be part of their parasite pyramid, and nobody gives small Serafleana the chance to show how high she can soar. Then one day, their host dog goes wild, and Serafleana finally gets the chance to prove what she can do.
Author
Physical Desc
viii, 216 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores the world of social circus--a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony in St. Louis, whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and [Galilee Circus] in Israel, whose participants [are] Jews and Arabs. As the kids' relationships evolve over time, the members...
Author
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Expect to find exploding cars, innocent bystanders smacked in the head with hammers, half-naked underware models chased by cross-dressing villains, auctioneers crawling across airplane wings to retrieve false teeth, memory-impaired lovers, somnambulists, drunken reprobates, deranged acrobats, and the Keystone Kops.
Author
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After smuggling herself onto the RMS Titanic, British-Chinese teenager Valora Luck reunites with her twin brother and tries to convince him that their acrobatic training could be their ticket to a better life.
Southampton, 1912. British-Chinese Valora Luck smuggles herself aboard the Titanic with two goals: to reunite with her twin brother Jamie, and to convince a part-owner of the Ringling Brothers Circus to take the twins on as acrobats. Val talks...
Author
Series
Caldecott medal book volume 2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
14) Quidam
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Quidam tells the story of a little girl named Zoe, who is bored and trying to get her parents attention. Then a man who holds an umbrella and a bowler hat but has no head arrives. It is Quidam. He comes through the door and drops his hat. Zoe picks it up and runs after him, but he doesn't see her and walks out again. Zoe puts on the hat and suddenly her dull, boring world is transformed into one of color and excitement! John, a man in a purple suit,...
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