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The floating circus
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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...
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 comes to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.
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- Creator
- Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First U.S. edition
- New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 198 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781599901855, 1599901854
- OCLC
- ocn181368666
Subjects
- Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Circus -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- River boats -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction.
- Circus -- Juvenile fiction.
- River boats -- Juvenile fiction.
- Free African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.