Prodigies / Bob Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Bob, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons--Fiction.

Freed persons.

Gang members--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Gang members.

Circus performers--Fiction.

Circus performers.

Deadwood (S.D.)--Fiction.

Deadwood (S.D.).

Five Points (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Five Points (New York, N.Y.).

Steam-engines--Fiction.

Steam-engines.

Mathematicians--Fiction.

Mathematicians.

Mines and mineral resources--South Dakota--Fiction.

Mines and mineral resources.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)--New York--Five Points.

South Dakota.

South Dakota--Deadwood.

Genre:

Fiction.

Western fiction.

Physical Description:

371 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Waterville, Maine] : Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

Summary:

"In the mid-1870s, Daniel McCormack, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln Henry, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathematics, and Lily Mandeville, an orphan working with a traveling circus, discovers her talent for talking with dogs. Daniel's gang and Lily's circus travel to greener pastures in the west, while Lincoln becomes an apprentice to a steam-engine mechanic. In the boom town of Deadwood in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, they'll unite to oppose a power-mad mining baron. Vivid settings, family tragedies, and a diverse cast of criminals, circus folk, lawmen, engineers, entrepreneurs, and a Reconstruction-era family of former slaves make PRODIGIES an immersive reading experience."--Jacket flap.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1432878115

9781432878115

OCLC:

1255689658