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That Time I Joined the Circus
''That Time I Joined the Circus'' is a 2012 young adult novel set in the United States and written by J. J. Howard.
== Plot ==
''That Time I Joined the Circus'' is about Xandra Ryan, or Lexi, who lives in New York city with her father Gavin, who unexpectedly dies, the same night she betrays one her best friends. Once she realizes that her father left her with absolutely nothing she is told by her dad's lawyer that she works for a traveling circus so she goes to Florida to find her mother that left her and her father. She takes a Greyhound bus to the location of the circus and ends up having an encounter with the owner of the circus, Louie, and realizes that her mother is not there. So knowing that she has nothing and can't go anywhere she accepts a job from Louie and starts her new life working at the novelties.
While getting a job at the circus wasn't what she had planned she made it her new life. As Lexi gets use to her jobs she meets new people the make her feel very welcome to their home. The first day she was there she had breakfast with the crew that she was going to be working with for now. She then meet Jamie who also works there and showed her around. Then he let her into the circus rehearsal to she all the talented people who perform on a daily basis. She meet the daughters of Louie, Lina and Liska, and Lexi believed that they would be stereotypical teenagers but they welcomed her and invited her to go places with them and hang out with her and Lina invited her to live in her trailer so she does not have to live with the crew. Louie doesn't think she should be working on the crew anymore so he lets her add her talent into the circus. She claimed that she didn't really have a talent but then she remembered that she use to read tarot cards for her friends and the lady that use to do that had just left so she became the replacement. Lexi stopped reading cards and now her and Lina worked at the carnival game Go Fish. One night while they were working she got an unexpected visit from Eli her ex-bestfriend that she had left behind in New York. Seeing him made him so distraught that she fainted.
Now it was the holidays and they didn't have to work. She had asked Jamie if he could teach her how to drive a car. So with Lexi not knowing Jamie borrowed Eli's car. They drove for a long time and then stopped at a motel to stay in for the night. Jamie got a little Christmas tree for the hotel room and they decorated it together. That night they went to find Nick, Lexi's love at club that he works at. When they walk into the club they see a lady singing on the stage and Lexi realized that it was her mother. When they meet they talked and her mother apologized for what she did. After, they all went home to New York. She finished the school year and graduated. Lina invited her back to visit the circus to give her some new, she was getting married and she wanted her to be a bridesmaid. She also wanted her to be part of a tradition that they had at the circus. Where the crew does the circus show and the performers watch. Lexi did impersonations of the performers. When she went back home afterwards, her and Eli began dating. So she had to decide where she wanted to go to college. If she should stay with Eli or go where she wanted to go. She ended up staying in New York with Eli and they would see each other everyday after school.
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