A traveling medicine show promises to cure all that ails, but thirteen-year-old Jack and his friend Cora learn it takes more than faith in the miraculous to fix things that are broken.
An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him.
Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz, whose family runs the Stardust Home for Old People, begins to question if his family is better off without him and life on the road with other kids is worse than working with the elderly after he is kidnapped by a traveling medicine show.
Describes the medicine shows that not only sold cure-all medicines but also provided entertainment to small towns from mid-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century.
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him.
