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Flying

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8
Page count: 35
Categories: Fantasy, Halloween, Vampires

Author

Delia
Sherman

Appeared in

Teeth: Vampire Tales

Story Summary

There are seven Fabulous Flying Kubatovs, until Lenka gets leukemia and she and her parents have to leave the act.. But Lenka is in remission now. Feeling a burden to her parents and desperately missing flying, she runs away to join a dilapidated, eastern European circus, Cirque des Chauve Souris. If they hire her, Lenka promises to modernize them and increase attendance. But Lenka soon learns a dark secret lurks beneath the Big Top - they are a circus of vampires and they can offer her something far more precious than modernization - eternal life and the ability to fly again.