Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn. <br/><br/>
The floating circus / 
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. 
 - 1st U.S. ed. 
 - New York :  Bloomsbury Children's Books,  2008. 
 - 198 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781599901855 (trade) 1599901854 (trade) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007038998 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Abandoned children--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Circus--Juvenile fiction.<br/>River Boats--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.Z6165  / Fl 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]