The Mysterious Circus (Hall Family Chronicles)
Grade 4-6–This installment in the series jumps right in whereThe Time Bike(HarperCollins, 2000) left off, and readers unfamiliar with the characters and ongoing plot devices will be confused. Eleanor, Edward, and their little sister, Georgie, are visited in Concord, MA, by their cousin Andy from India. He brings with him a magic seed, which soon produces elephants, and a circus is born. At the same time, a new selectwoman has been instrumental in getting the town council to vote yes to building a Thoreau Theme Park. The circus completely preoccupies the children as the park proposal does the adults. Of course the two events collide and bring about the fall of the selectwoman, and the town is saved. The plot is a tad thin and the characters are never well defined, but fans of the previous books will probably enjoy this novel.–Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, Monmouth Junction, NJCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.