Michael de Guzman

HENRIETTA HORNBUCKLE'S CIRCUS OF LIFE

Henrietta is a clown. Her mother and father are clowns. Everybody she knows is a clown. She's spent all twelve years of her life with Filbert's Traveling Clown Circus. She's never been to school. She's never lived in a house. All she wants is to be a better clown and for things to never change. But they do when the existence of the circus is threatened, and then tragedy strikes.

Middle Reader Fiction


Growing Up Rita
Rita Martinez is the story of a girl who is separated from her mother and must find the courage to contemplate life without her.
Henrietta Hornbuckle’s Circus of Life
Twelve-year-old Henrietta Hornbuckle finds the courage to confront change and tragedy.
Finding Stinko
A mute runaway boy finds a ventriloquist’s dummy and rediscovers his own voice.
The Bamboozlers
Albert’s dream of adventure comes true when the grandfather he’s never met shows up unexpectedly.
Beekman's Big Deal
Beekman and his father have moved a dozen times in his brief life in Manhattan. He's been to nearly that many schools. All he wants in life now is to stay in one place.
Melonhead
Sidney T. Mellon, Jr. has an extremely large head which has been the source of trouble his whole life. The tag MELONHEAD has followed him everywhere. This and family problems caused by divorce lead him to a bus trip across America in search of a place to be.

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