When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: adventure stories, paddle steamers, juvenile fiction, theater, adventure and adventurers, fiction, missouri river, history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, fiction