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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.
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Bloomsbury Children's Books · 9781599901855
Abandoned childrenCircusFictionRiver boatsFree African AmericansJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionCircus, fiction