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Girl in the Shadows

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The Storyspinner

Becky Wallace · 320 pages

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasyMagic System
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The Diamond Thief

Sharon Gosling · 305 pages

No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Rémy Brunel. But Rémy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadSeries
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Steadfast

Mercedes Lackey

Traveling CircusFantasyFemale LeadMagic System
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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasyFemale Lead
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Spectacle

Rachel Vincent · 400 pages

Traveling CircusFantasyYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Daughter of the Burning City

Amanda Foody · 304 pages

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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MirrorMask

Neil Gaiman · 136 pages

While most kids long to run away and join the circus, Helena dreams of running away to join the real world. Until the day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new place populated by mysterious creatures a dreamworld where she is about to embark on an amazing journey.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasyFemale Lead
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Pantomime

Laura Lam · 397 pages

Gene, the daughter of a noble family, runs away from the decadence of court to R.H. Ragona's circus of magic, where she meets runaway Micah, whose blood could unlock the mysteries of the world of Ellada.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasySeries
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Coyote Moon

John Vornholt · 164 pages

Buffy and her friends Xander and Willow visit a carnival for fun and relaxation. They are surprised to learn of the carnival's deadly secrets.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadSeries
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Freeks

Amanda Hocking · 387 pages

Mara Beznik, who travels with Gideon Davorin's Traveling Carnival, longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. When the show stops in Caudry and she meets gorgeous local Gabe, she finally gets her chance. But before long, Mara realizes there's a dark presence lurking in the town, and that she has only a week to harness a power she didn't know she had

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadRomance
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams

Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio · 128 pages

Traveling CircusFantasyFemale LeadSeries
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Ice

Lyn Gardner · 242 pages

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasyFemale Lead
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The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore · 314 pages

Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadRomance
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Full Tilt

Neal Shusterman · 204 pages

Blake has always been a kid that skirted adventure, but his brother has always had an adreniline high. When he receives an invitation to a mysterious, legandary carnival, Blake doesn't want to go, but he follows his brother along with two of his friends. All of the rides take a sinister, deadly turn. If you don't make it through all of the needed rides before sunrise, you are stuck in the ride

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasy
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Lord of the Shadows

Darren Shan · 220 pages

Darren Shan is going home--and his world is going to hell. Old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night....

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFantasySeries
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The Mermaid's Sister

Carrie Anne Noble

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale LeadFantasy
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That Time I Joined the Circus

J.J. Howard

After her father's sudden death and a break-up with her best friends, seventeen-year-old Lexi has no choice but to leave New York City seeking her long-absent mother, rumored to be in Florida with a traveling circus, where she just may discover her destiny.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Miss Fortune

Brandi Dougherty · 168 pages

When a skeptical Zoe has her fortune told at a carnival, and the fortune-teller gives her a special necklace, it begins a run of bad luck that leads her to believe she has been cursed.

Traveling CircusFantasyYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Circus Galacticus

Deva Fagan · 304 pages

Trix's life in boarding school as an orphan charity case has been hard, but when an alluring young Ringmaster invites her, a gymnast, to join Circus Galacticus she gainss an entire universe of deadly enemies and potential friends, along with a chance to unravel secrets of her own past.

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale Lead
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The Immortal Circus

A.R. Kahler · 240 pages

Murdered contortionists aren't exactly what Vivienne signed up for when she ran away to join the circus. But like most things under the big top, nothing is what it seems. With a past she can't quite remeber, Vivienne finds that running away forever might not be as appealing as it once sounded - because forever means something quite different at the Cirque des Immortels.

Traveling CircusFantasyFemale LeadRomance
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Wonder Show

Hannah Barnaby

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave

Traveling CircusYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Magic for Nothing

Seanan McGuire · 352 pages

"As the youngest of the three Price children, Antimony is used to people not expecting much from her. Annie's expectations keep getting shattered. She didn't expect Verity to declare war on the Covenant of St. George on live television. She didn't expect the Covenant to take her sister's threat seriously. And she definitely didn't expect to be packed off to London to infiltrate the Covenant from t

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Freaky Days

Amanda M. Lee · 292 pages

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Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!

Annette Curtis Klause

Traveling CircusYoung AdultRomance

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