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02162aam a2200337 a 4500 001 83F596D0AE3711E2ADF40BD6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 120208s2012 maua c 000 1 eng 010 $a 2011049590 020 $a 0547752687 020 $a 9780547752686 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc $a pcc 050 00 $a PZ7.F135 $b Boy 2012 082 00 $a [Fic] $2 23 084 $a JUV039130 $a JUV013050 $a JUV037000 $a JUV031010 $a JUV039060 $a JUV039130 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Fagan, Cary. 245 14 $a The boy in the box / $c by Cary Fagan. 260 $a Boston : $b Clarion Books, $c c2012. 300 $a 283 p. : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm. 490 0 $a Master Melville's Medicine Show 520 $a ""If you always feel fully and completely happy, my friends, then you do not need my drops and I will not sell them to you for any amount of money." --Master Melville Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. It's not ideal: his best friend, Manny, is eighty-one years old. But life as usual turns upside down when Master Melville's Medicine Show comes to town. Sullivan's excitement at finding performers his own age dissolves into dread when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned in the traveling show's caravan. As his fears subside, his questions multiply. Is his family better off without him? Would life as a juggler performing with other kids be worse than living in an old folks' home? Being kidnapped could be the best thing that ever happened to him. or decidedly not"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A charming, humor- and heart-filled middle grade story of a misfit boy who finds an unexpected second life after being kidnapped by a colorful traveling medicine show"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Juggling $v Juvenile fiction 650 0 $a Kidnapping $v Juvenile fiction 650 0 $a Medicine shows $v Juvenile fiction 941 $a 2 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909032806.0 952 $l AJPE887 $d 20130525010814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=83F596D0AE3711E2ADF40BD6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search