Title: The glorious adventures of the Sunshine Queen
Description: When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
Subjects: Paddle steamers, Theater, Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, History, Adventure stories, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Theater, fiction, Missouri, fiction
Places: Missouri River
Time periods: 19th century