The Floating Circus

The Floating Circus

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Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
2008 • 198 pages

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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Examines themes of slavery using a circus housed on a riverboat as a backdrop. Kid's book that is OK but perhaps a bit below my grade level.

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