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The Circus
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Why would a girl who has everything want to run away and never be found? Willow has staged runaways ever since she was a little girl. She has everything a young person should want: a rich daddy, clothes, money, a pony and a place at a prestigious boarding school. In reality, she has everything except the thing she really wants: a father who cares enough to find her. Aged sixteen, on the eve of her fathers wedding, she ruins the brides dress and escapes through a window, determined never to return. Her missing mother was a circus performer, and Willow wants to follow in her footsteps. But the performers she meets dont want her. When her last bit of money is stolen by Suze, another runaway girl she thought she could trust, Willow becomes really homeless. Then Suze comes tumbling back into her life and a desperate Willow has to decidewhether to trust her all over again . . . So begins their frightening, exhilarating odyssey though hunger, performance, desperation and dreams. Will they both survive and will Willow make it to the circus of her imagining? Olivia Levez takes you into the very heart of a girl who wants so hard to be lost, but saves herself through a powerful friendship and the awakening of a need for home.
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The Circus | Olivia Levez
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The only one I‘ve read was The Night Circus, but I did enjoy it. #circus #augustisatrip

vkois88 It's on my list! I like the cover for 6y
Booksndogs Nights at the circus by Angela Carter deserves lots of love too. One of my all-time favorites. 6y
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Kaylamburson
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Workman Publishing knows how to party! We celebrated three colleagues who have been at the company for 25 years by having a circus come to our office. Besides the stilt walker and a juggler 🤹‍♂️ we had cotton candy, popcorn 🍿, ice cream sandwiches, animal crackers, and Cracker Jack! Plus some tricycle races in clown 🤡 costumes 😂.

Maike What an awesome idea! 6y
Kaylamburson It was a blast!! And so unexpected, haha @Maike 6y
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callunakeep
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⭐️⭐️⭐️I enjoyed reading this book! I could put it down easily but was always happy to pick it back up. It was Willow/Frog that had me enjoying this book more than others who have reviewed it. I have a soft spot in my heart for well written characters who aren't afraid to follow their dreams regardless of hardships on the way & an even softer spot for characters who aren't afraid to admit when they were wrong. Willow was both. Fun, slow read!

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DiruVamp
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Willow is a privileged seventeen year old who habitually runs away. At the start of the book she runs away on her fathers wedding day to go in search of her mother whom she's told is a circus performer. This was....ok. I could leave it for a couple of days without picking it up but I did like it better after I had finished it.

callunakeep I am LOVING this book...a little over half way through now! 7y
DiruVamp @callunakeep LOL I love how different our opinions can be sometimes 😂🤓😍 7y
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callunakeep
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Lunch break reading under my favorite tree at work!

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decorating.reader
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Amazing book box curated by Litcube! I can't wait to read this one 😍

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Liberty
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Day 10 of the #RiotGrams challenge: books in the wild! Here in Maine, the beautiful wild is right outside the back door. It's nice to know it's there while I sit inside and read. 😝🌲📚

mcipher I'm glad it's not just me ignoring the beautiful weather and sitting inside too often! 7y
tapgurl Haha that's great! Do you know the Spongebob song "Indoors". I love it! 7y
readingallthetime Hi Liberty. I'm from Bar Harbor. 7y
Liberty @readingallthetime Hello, fellow 207 resident! 🤘🏻🤘🏻 7y
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The-bookie-monster
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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3/5
It's not the best book I've ever read, but it was interesting. Circus is about a teenage girl on the run from her life. Willow has never known her mom, only a story about her being in the circus. She hates her soon to be stepmother, so much that it triggers her to act out on the day of their wedding and runs away to join the circus to be like her mom. Running away wasn't as easy as Willow thought it would be.

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Kelly
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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Picking this up again. It fell to the side last month but now I am ready 📚

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Kelly
The Circus | Olivia Levez
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LOVED her first book and decided I needed this one while I travel

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