Title: The floating circus
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.
Subjects: Abandoned children, Circus, Fiction, River boats, Free African Americans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Circus, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction