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1) Geek love
Author
Language
English
Description
Olympia, an albino hunchback dwarf, tells of a carnival family who breeds and trains their children for their freak show.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Darren is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and get tickets. Steve and Darren think that it is all a joke until a vampire named Larten Crepsley comes on stage with a very poisonous spider that he makes do tricks. Steve tells Larten he would like to join him and become an apprentice.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But the strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the Cirque Du Freak and get a taste of the city, but when corpses drained of blood are discovered, Darren and Evra must confront a dangerous creature of the night.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
7) Freezer burn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of living on just the Social Security checks he's managed to steal from the Government, Bill Roberts bungles a fireworks burglary and finds himself bumping into the camp of a cut-rate traveling freak show.
8) Stitch Head
Author
Series
Stitch Head volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stitch Head, the Mad Professor's first creation, has long hidden in the shadows of Castle Grotteskew--but now that the newest monster, the Creature, has decided that they are best friends, and the evil Freakfinder wants to kidnap the monsters for his freak show, Stitch Head finds himself cast in the role of hero.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.
10) Freaks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America's most...
12) The Phantom Twin
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow.
Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death.
Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her
13) Wild boy
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wild Boy becomes a sideshow freak. Isolated from other children and abused by the cruel master who bought him, Wild Boy becomes an avid observer, developing Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills. Although he is tormented and insulted, kicked and spat at, his quick mind takes in everything he sees. When a murder occurs at the fair, Wild Boy is accused. Can he use his powers of deduction to save himself? And will the talented and spunky young acrobat...
14) Vampire Mountain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Mr. Crepsley leads Darren Shan on a dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain, the very heart of the vampire world, to be presented to the Council; but an encounter with the Vampaneze along the way means trouble.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s."--
18) Nightmare Alley
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes this noir-style psychological thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. When a manipulative carnival man (Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. NIGHTMARE ALLEY is directed by del Toro, who co-wrote the film with Kim Morgan, based on...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London, 1879. As winter grips the city, a group of African travellers seek sanctuary inside the walls of the Quaker Meeting House. They are being hunted by a ruthless showman, who is forcing them to perform in his ethnic exhibition in the London Aquarium. Nowhere to turn. Private investigator William Arrowood and his assistant Barnett agree to help the travellers avoid capture. But when they arrive at the Meeting House, they find a scene of devastation....
20) Of better blood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics--the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding--has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals,...
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