The Bonaventure Adventures

By: Rachelle Delaney

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis: A middle-grade novel for fans of boarding school stories--with a dash of The Mysterious Benedict Society and a splash of Circus Mirandus! Sebastian Konstantinov comes from a long line of talented circus performers. Somehow, however, he has not inherited any of their acrobatic skill: he has no balance, he's afraid of heights, he can't even turn a somersault. But there's one thing he does know: his father's circus, which travels through Eastern Europe, is out of date and is fast running out of money. Seb has a solution, though: if he can somehow get into the Bonaventure Circus School in Montreal, Canada, he might be able to learn something valuable to help his father. Seb secretly writes to the Directrice (an old friend of his father's) and is accepted into the school. All he has to do is convince his father to send him away -- oh, and keep his lack of talent a secret from all his teachers and classmates. Fortunately for him, he befriends two other students, who also don't seem to quite fit in. Seb is not the only one with secrets, it turns out. The school is literally crumbling beneath the feet of its students, and the directrice may be counting on Seb's "talent" to save the day. Can he and his new friends figure out what's really going on in the school that bills itself as the World's Best Circus School?

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780143198529
Related ISBNs:: 9780143198505
Publisher:: PRH Canada Young Readers
Date of Addition:: 05/02/17
Copyrighted By:: Rachelle Delaney
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Children's Books, Entertainment, Literature and Fiction, Education
Grade Levels:: Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.