Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn.

The floating circus / Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2008. - 198 p. ; 21 cm.

In 1850s Pittsburgh, thirteen year old Owen leaves his younger brother and sneaks aboard a circus housed in a riverboat, where he befriends a freed slave, learns to work with elephants, and finally come s to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.

9781599901855 (trade) 1599901854 (trade)

2007038998


Abandoned children--Juvenile fiction.
Circus--Juvenile fiction.
River Boats--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.Z6165 / Fl 2008

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