The floating circus
By: by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781599901855
Subjects: Abandoned children -- Fiction; Circus -- Fiction; River boats -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.