About this item
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father's disappearance. Will she find him before Mister finds her? It's a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same.
About the Author
Hannah Barnaby's debut novel, WONDER SHOW, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist in 2013; her second novel, SOME OF THE PARTS, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and sold out its first printing in two weeks. Her picture books include BAD GUY, illustrated by Mike Yamada; GARCIA & COLETTE GO EXPLORING, illustrated by Andrew Joyner; THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT SAM, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf; and HOME IS..., illustrated by Frann Preston Gannon (2021) . She is also the author of the MONSTER & BOY chapter book series, illustrated by Anoosha Syed.Hannah has worked as a children's book editor, a bookseller at independent children's bookstores, and a teacher of writing for children and young adults. She holds an MA in Children's Literature from Simmons College and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College, and she was the first Children's Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library. She lives in Charlottesville, VA.
