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Title:

Sideshow : ten original tales of freaks, illusionists, and other matters odd and magical / edited by Deborah Noyes.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American.
Curiosities and wonders--Juvenile fiction.
Curiosities and wonders--Fiction.
Misfits (Persons)--Fiction.
Magicians--Fiction.
Freaks (Enterainers)--Fiction.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Noyes, Deborah.

Contents:

The bearded girl / Aimee Bender -- Those psychics on TV / Vivian Vande Velde -- The year of the rat / Danica Novgorodoff -- The mummy's daughter / Annette Curtis Klause -- When God came to Kathleen's garden / David Almond -- The shadow troupe / Shawn Cheng -- Cat calls / Cynthia Leitich Smith -- The bread box / Cecil Castellucci -- Living curiosities / Margo Lanagan -- Jargo! / Matt Phelan.

Summary:

Ten original tales by modern-day masters of the bizarre. Meet mediums and mummies, spinsters and bearded ladies, circus freaks and monsters of every sort!

ISBN:

0763637521 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780763637521 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)256761895

LCCN:

2008037420

Locations:

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)