Prodigies /
In the mid-1870s, Daniel McCormack, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln Henry, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Waterville, Maine] :
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | In the mid-1870s, Daniel McCormack, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln Henry, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathematics and Lily Mandeville, an orphan working with a traveling circus, discovers her talent for talking with dogs. Daniel's gang and Lily's circus travel to greener pastures in the west, while Lincoln becomes an apprentice to a steam-engine mechanic. In the boom town of Deadwood in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, they'll unite to oppose a power-mad mining baron. Vivid settings, family tragedies and a diverse cast of criminals, circus folk, lawmen, engineers, entrepreneurs and a Reconstruction-era family of former slaves make PRODIGIES an immersive reading experience. |
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| Physical Description: | 371 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1432878115 9781432878115 |