Performing Poodles (Circus Quest Series Book 3)

By Maureen Crisp

Performing Poodles is the 3rd book in the popular Circus Quest series for confident young readers.

Kestrel is outperformed by a poodle?
The clues are getting harder.
When Pepper the performing poodle is dognapped, Kestrel races to the rescue.
Is he out of luck as well as out of time?
Join Kestrel and Skye on a circus tour filled with codes, villains and danger.

The Circus Quest series takes readers behind the scenes in a traveling circus.
Ideal for the beginning confident reader. With big font, black and white illustrations throughout, slapstick humour and circus stunts vetted by real circus instructors, this is the perfect series to recommend to parents of quirky, confident young readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marmac Media
• Release date: May 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9780473474737

Maureen Crisp

Maureen Crisp lives in New Zealand where she dreams up stories to get her out of any boring things she has to do. She loves writing for children and has published plays and junior fiction in the New Zealand School Journal and for Penguin. Maureen is a primary school teacher by trade and a geek by inclination. She writes a mix of contemporary and science fiction stories to disguise the fact that she is overly fascinated by Mars, the robot landers and space exploration.Maureen is active in the New Zealand children’s writing community where she has planned and run two national conferences for children’s writers. She has been writing a weekly blog on publishing news from around the world along with writing and marketing tips for authors for over ten years. Maureen is a member of the FaBo collective of writers who write competition story prompts for children in New Zealand schools and the Convener of the Wellington Children’s Book Association.In 2017 her peers awarded her the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding services to Children’s Literature. In 2018 Maureen was on the judging panel for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

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Performing Poodles

Book Three of The Circus Quest Series

by Maureen Crisp

Illustrated by Irina Burtseva

Marmac Media

For all the kids who love

Circus School

Text Copyright © 2019 by Maureen Crisp.

Illustration Copyright © 2019 by Irina Burtseva.

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Book Three/ Circus Quest Series — Epub Edition

ISBN 978-0-473-47473-7

This book is also available in print at most online retailers

Other Books in the Circus Quest Series

Book One- The Playbill

Book Two- Magician’s Moustache

Contents

Chapter One: Estermond

Chapter Two: Pepper

Chapter Three: Planks

Chapter Four: Problem

Chapter Five: Lost

Chapter Six: Skye

Chapter Seven: Missing

Chapter Eight: Found

Chapter Nine: Home

Chapter Ten Finale

Bonus First Chapter of Book Four

About the Author and Illustrator

Madam Pauline’s

Performing Poodles

CHAPTER 1

Estermond

The circus caravans came to a stop high on the hills overlooking Estermond. In the distance they