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.