| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
306 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Contents |
Part one. Home for Friendless Children ; "Smartest man in Chicago" ; "No orphan borrows" ; "First sound come out" ; The smell of frying bacon ; "Firecracker smart" ; A lie they told orphans -- Part two. "Encyclopedia of the incredible" ; "The world's smallest man meets the world's largest dog" ; "You used to talk, like everybody else" ; At the bottom of the skinny gray stick of a tail ; "Ever since Mackinac picked her" ; "The one you got to worry about" ; "Our new favorite OOFO" ; Breathing lessons ; Glittering sparks of light ; "The wrongest possible side of Diavolo" ; "First-of-Mays" ; Vocabulary list ; Elephantoff ; The elephant car ; "John Robinson" ; "You're one of us" -- Part three. "He doesn't c-care . . . about you" ; Orphan Eleven ; OOFOs looked out for each other ; A teakettle whistling ; The blue Ford ; Lucy Simone Sauve ; The route card ; Last train to Chicago ; Woman in red ; "Ward of the state" ; "You were always such a chatterbox" ; "From when we were little" ; Sawdust in her shoes |
| Summary |
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her |
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Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
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Orphanages -- Juvenile fiction
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Selective mutism -- Juvenile fiction
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Runaways -- Juvenile fiction
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Circus -- Juvenile fiction
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Elephants -- Juvenile fiction
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Human experimentation in medicine -- Juvenile fiction
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| Other Form |
Online version: Choldenko, Gennifer, Orphan eleven New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2020. 9780307975782 (DLC) 2019023494 |
| OCLC # |
1104220073 |
| ISBN # |
9780385742559 |
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038574255X |
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9780375990649 |
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037599064X |
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9780385742566 |
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0385742568 |
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