Wonder show
By: Hannah Rodgers Barnaby
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780547599809
Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General; Depressions; JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance; JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Fathers; JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Circus; JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes; Fiction; Runaways; Sideshows; Orphanages; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / General (see also headings under Family)
Description: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father's disappearance. Will she find him before Mister finds her? It's a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same"--

"A striking historical fiction YA debut about a wayward girl amid the freaks and sideshows of a late 1930s traveling circus"--