![]() Zimmer’s 2007 verse novel for children, Reaching for Sun (Semicolon review here), except maybe a certain empathy for the disabled and a talented story-telling ability on the part of the author. The Floating Circus, a straight prose work of historical fiction, doesn’t have much in common with Ms. And Owen becomes attached to the animals, especially the elephants, Tippo and her calf, Little Bet. Owen finds a new sort of family in Solomon, the freed slave who works as stable hand and all-round janitor on the circus barge called The River Palace. Owen and his younger brother Zach are set to go on the next Orphan Train and find a new family out west, but when Owen decides that Zach will be better off and find a family more easily without a crippled brother to hold him back, Owen makes the sacrifice and goes off on his own.Īnd where Owen lands is the most unlikely place you could imagine, a floating circus traveling down the Mississippi River. But since Owen’s an orphan and destitute, there’s no doctor for him, just a few days in bed to recover and then a sling for the now-useless arm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twelve year old Owen Burke just fell out of a tree, and now his arm won’t move at all. ![]()
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