Jonathan Roberts: The Ringmaster's Apprentice, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Fancy scrubbing a bridge with your toothbrush? Perhaps you'd like to count the maggots in the bin? What about spending the rest of your childhood catching enormous spiders with your bare hands?

England, 1949. Nobody wants to live at the East Berkshire and District Home for Parentless Boys, least of all twelve-year-old Arthur. The war took his parents, but surely there is more to life than endless chores and algebra.

A travelling circus rolls into the village, and with it, a charismatic ringmaster, majestic lions and gallons of elephant snot. His luck might be changing.

But two men are recovering from war in very different ways, and their rivalry is quickly becoming Arthur's problem. After all, the circus can be a dangerous place when old wounds refuse to heal. And old wounds can turn men into tyrants.

Arthur is in danger of following the same path. But when the orphanage's money starts to disappear, and the circus is put up for sale, only he can uncover the truth.

Part apprentice and part detective, he must learn how to save the circus, and his friends.

The Ringmaster's Apprentice is a moving, funny and warm adventure for all readers aged 9+.