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2) Geek love
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Description
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot, the nightmare continues for the new vampire's assistant in the popular Saga of Darren Shan.
Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a Vampire's Assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that...
Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a Vampire's Assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that...
7) Freezer burn
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Loner, loser, and sometime armed robber Bill Roberts finds himself in over his head when he bungles a raid on a fireworks stand and takes refuge in a cut-rate traveling freak show that is kept going by the magnetic aura of the mysterious frozen man.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
12) Vampire Mountain
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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
Pub. Date
[2015]
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 strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
14) Lenin's kisses
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In the bucolic village int he middle of a sweltering summer, it suddenly begins to snow, a hot snow that falls for seven days - seven long days that not only transform summer into winter but that forever disrupt the balance of life. This mystifying that melds fable, history, and satire in an enthralling tragicomedy set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, by a large spared fromt he government's watchful eye, the people of...
16) Freaks
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus freaks.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Living nightmare: Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
Vampire's assistant: 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.
Tunnels of blood: Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the...