The floating circus /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : 2008.
Edition:	1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:	Abandoned children > Fiction. Circus > Fiction. River boats > Fiction. Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction. Circus > Juvenile fiction. River boats > Juvenile fiction. Free African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
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