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|title=Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away from the Circus (and Joined the Library)

|author=A F Harrold

|publisher=Bloomsbury

|date=June 2012

|summary=A good debut novel, let down by slightness of plot and the feel it's advertising the rest in the series.

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The number of times the fictional cliche of the boy who ran away to the circus has been used are beyond count. Here though is the boy who appears, from his clown mother and strongman father's point of view, to have run away FROM the circus. The truth, of course, is more unusual. In trying to return a dropped library book, Fizz gets enamoured of the opportunity at his local branch, but this captivation leads to a captivity of a more physical kind...