| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
198 pages ; 21 cm |
| Audience |
008-012. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.5 6.0 124494. |
| Subject |
Abandoned children -- Fiction.
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Circus -- Fiction.
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River boats -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781599901855 hardcover |
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1599901854 hardcover |
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