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Children's Fiction Circus

The Boy in the Box

Book 1 Of Master Melville's Medicine Show

by (author) Cary Fagan

Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Initial publish date
Jan 2014
Category
Circus, Friendship, Mysteries & Detective Stories
Recommended Age
8 to 12
Recommended Grade
3 to 7
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670065851
    Publish Date
    Sep 2012
    List Price
    $17.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143180890
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan’s life is turned upside down the night he glimpses a strange horse-drawn caravan outside his window and decides to follow it. He is thrilled to find an old-fashioned medicine show with performers who are his own age.

 

But thrill quickly turns to dread when he steps onstage for the magic act ... only to wake up imprisoned inside the caravan! Should he plot his escape and return to his safe but boring existence? Or could being kidnapped actually be the best thing that has ever happened to him?

About the author

Cary Fagan is the author of eight previous novels and five books of short stories, including The Student, Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart, and A Bird's Eye. He has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Writers' Trust Fiction Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and has won the Toronto Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He is also an acclaimed writer of books for children, having won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award, a Mr. Christie Silver Medal, the Joan Betty Stuchner—Oy Vey!—Funniest Children's Book Award, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Fagan's work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Korean and Persian. He still lives in his hometown of Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

"Fagan creates wonderfully engaging characters and tackles some tough issues." - School Library Journal

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