Fizzlebert Stump

the boy who ran away from the circus (and joined the library)

Fizzlebert Stump lives in a travelling circus. But although he gets to hang around with acrobats and put his head in a lion's mouth every night, he's bored. But then Fizz decides to join a library, and life suddenly gets a lot more exciting, when a simple library card application leads to him being kidnapped by a pair of crazed pensioners!