In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and meets Kublai Khan.
Freddy the pig and his animal friends take to the air to save Mr. Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic book tycoon.
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum South before being invited to join the P.T. Barnum circus, through which she pursues limitless international opportunities.