The floating circus

By Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

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

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.