Cirque du Freak (The Observer UK)
guardian.co.uk | 22 October 2000This is a horror story that will very pleasurably curdle the blood of nine to 13-year-olds. The narrator of the story mysteriously has the same name as the author, but says: 'Everything's true in...
Cirque du Freak (Nancy Keane’s Book Talks USA)
nancykeane.com | 24 April 2010Ever want to run faster than a deer, play soccer better than a pro, have broken bones mend themselves in a few hours, and meet interesting and amazing people and things while traveling across the...
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myshelf.com | 24 April 2010This book is reminiscent of Richard Laymon's Traveling Vampire Show, but written for a younger audience with a non-evil vampire monster, compelling characters, and a hook at the end of each...
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mrsmad.com | 01 January 2000Mrs Mad's humble opinion
9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this.
What's it about?
A teenager whose life is changed forever when he becomes involved with a freak show, an enormous spider and a...
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MEGA [In The Times] (UK) | 24 April 2010Harry Potter author JK Rowling rates this, and book recommendations don't come any better! Forget trapeze artists, this Cirque has Darren and Steve gawping at the bearded lady, snake-boy and...
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Manchester Evening News (UK) | 24 April 2010When Cirque Du Freak came out last year, hearts skipped a beat all over the country. Vampire novels don't come much scarier than this, especially since it was told from the spine-tingling...
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Mail on Sunday (UK) | 24 April 2010The author is the central character in this brilliant Gothic fantasy. In search of thrills, Darren and his friend Steve go to a freak show. What happens next is not for the squeamish. To save...
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Locus (USA) | 24 April 2010Darren Shan is the young narrator of this young-adult dark fantasy novel, first in "The Saga of Darren Shan"; just to add a layer of complexity, Darren states in his introduction that his name...
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kidsturncentral.com | 24 April 2010The freak show was all I could think about last night. I tried forgetting it, but couldn't, not even when I was watching my favorite TV shows. It sounded so weird: a snake-boy, a wolf-man, a...
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kidsreads.com | 24 April 2010If you heard that an old-fashioned "freak show" were coming to your town, showing in an old theater the middle of the night, would you be brave enough to go?And if when you got there you saw the...
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kidsbookshelf.com | 24 April 2010When the Cirque Du Freak (Circus of Freaks) comes to town Darren and his friend Steve will do anything to go. But something happens at the show that has Darren a little freaked out, and it only...
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kids.islandpacket.com | 24 April 2010Not a lot of new books enjoy the buzz surrounding "Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare" ($15.95, Little Brown & Co.). Warner Bros. is making it into a movie, more books are planned in the series,...
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