Selling hope

By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Subjects: Single-parent families, Vaudeville, Home, fiction, Historical fiction, Mothers, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Hoaxes, Juvenile fiction, Magic tricks, Family, fiction

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.