Selling hope
Vaudeville
Home, fiction
hoaxes
Magic tricks
Chicago (ill.), fiction
Single-parent families
Family, fiction
Mothers
Historical fiction
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
In 1910, just before the earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels, whose father is a magician in a traveling vaudeville show, tries to earn enough money to quit the circuit by selling "anti-comet pills," with the help of fellow-performer Buster Keaton.
Read online
Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.