Selling Hope
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Feiwel & Friends · Ebook · November 9, 2010
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- Who it’s for
- A comet-era vaudeville tale pairs clever invention with a girl’s wish for a more ordinary life.
- Themes
- Seeking a different life, Family and belonging, Vaudeville-era entertainment
- Pacing
- Fast
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Selling Hope is an inventive middle grade novel about a girl who wants a normal life and how she sees Halley's Comet as her ticket out of the vaudeville circuit. It's May 1910, and Halley's Comet is due to pass thru the Earth's atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are due to pass through their hometown of Chicago with their ragtag vaudeville troupe.
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Hope wants out of vaudeville, and longs for a "normal" life -- or as normal as life can be without her mother, who died five years before. Hope sees an opportunity: She invents "anti-comet" pills to sell to the working-class customers desperate for protection. Soon, she's joined by a fellow troupe member, young Buster Keaton, and the two of them start to make good money. And just when Hope thinks she has all the answers, she has to decide: What is family? Where is home? “[An] oft-engaging, pleasantly romantic romp through a fascinating time in America's entertainment history.” —Kirkus Reviews
Hope on the Road
A comet-era vaudeville tale pairs clever invention with a girl’s wish for a more ordinary life.
Come here for
- A 1910 setting shaped by vaudeville and Halley’s Comet
- A young heroine ready to make her own opportunity
Expect
- An inventive, lightly romantic historical romp
- Questions of family and home beneath the comic premise
Where it sits
| Theater & Musicals for Teens | 74% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century US YA | 63% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Biographical Fiction
- 20th-Century US YA
- Theater & Musicals for Teens
- Authors
- Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
- Publisher
- Feiwel & Friends
- Published
- November 9, 2010
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Seeking a different life · Family and belonging · Vaudeville-era entertainment
- Reading lane
- YA Biographical Fiction