Catch Me When I Fall
Bonnie Graves
2019
Age Range: 9-12 years
Grade Level: 4-7
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
This book is set during the Great Depression in Wisconsin.
Emma is a very athletic girl who likes to run, to cartwheel, and to walk on the narrow railing on the bridge over the muddy water of Root River.
She dreams of running away to join the circus. But mostly she dreams of finding out who her father is.
The circus was coming to town and she saw the picture of Filippo the Flying Wonder on it. She gasped. It looked just like the picture she saw of her dad. The picture her mother kept hidden in her bureau.
She wanted to go to the circus to see Filippo and ask him if he was her father. She didn't have the money for the ticket and her mother didn't want her to have anything to do with the circus.
So she decided to dress like a boy to get a job at the circus to earn a ticket for the matinee. She finds out it's not easy being a circus worker. She helps put up the tent and makes friends with 'her' elephants. But . . .
Will the Boss Man see through her disguise?
Will she get to talk to Filippo?
Will her nosy cousins tell on her to her mother?
The book is a page turner. But in the end you will get the answers to your questions.
And you will find out why her mother didn't want her to sneak out to the circus and why she kept secret who Emma's father was. But she also finds out a secret about her mother.
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