Title: Selling hope
Description: In 1910, just before the earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels, whose father is a magician in a traveling vaudeville show, tries to earn enough money to quit the circuit by selling "anti-comet pills," with the help of fellow-performer Buster Keaton.
Subjects: Mothers, Vaudeville, Magic tricks, Single-parent families, Hoaxes, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Family, fiction, Home, fiction
Places: Halley's comet