Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn.
The floating circus / Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 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 comes to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.
9781599901855 (hardcover) 1599901854 (hardcover)
2007038998
Abandoned children--Fiction.
Circus--Fiction.
River boats--Fiction.
PZ7.Z6165 / Fl 2008
[Fic]
The floating circus / Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 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 comes to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.
9781599901855 (hardcover) 1599901854 (hardcover)
2007038998
Abandoned children--Fiction.
Circus--Fiction.
River boats--Fiction.
PZ7.Z6165 / Fl 2008
[Fic]