A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...

Hamweenie, the cat who is a legend in his own mind, escapes the clutches of the little girl who spoils him and makes his way to the circus, where he finds adoring fans that seem to be waiting for him.

Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave...

Leaping lizards, marching snakes, a bear on the high wire, and others perform in a somewhat unusual circus.

The big dog hits the big top and this is no time for clowning around. Clifford needs to save the circus and rescue Emily Elizabeth.

A collection of stories about Dumbo, the flying elephant, and other Walt Disney characters.

A gorilla becomes a star attraction at the circus and frightens away his audience.

Ivy Louise's parents encourage her to eat, unaware that the tiny green peas are performing a circus on her tray.

A modern fable about lovable misfits, both animal and human, whose fates become intertwined in a ragtag circus troupe.

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.