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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–8—Larwood takes readers to gritty parts of Victorian London in this novel about performers in a freak show. There's actually little performance involved in their nightly exhibitions. It's more a matter of letting people gawk at their physical anomalies or unusual proclivities. Sheba the Wolfgirl is covered in fur; Mama Rat has a troupe of trained rodents; Gigantus is (as you might surmise)...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2013
Performers in a Victorian freak show are the detective heroes in Larwood's first novel. Sheba, a hirsute girl who can morph into wolf form, joins with a "monkey boy," a gigantic man, a Japanese ninja girl with cat's eyes, and Mama Rat (custodian of intelligent rodents) to save London street urchins from a predatory group of scientific inventors. The misfits travel throughout the le...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
