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Name: Sawdust in His Shoes
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

📘 Sawdust in His Shoes by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

After his father is killed by a lion during a circus performance, 15‑year‑old Joe Lang is left orphaned. The court appoints a guardian, and Joe runs away from the industrial school that will hold him while the decision is pending. He lands on Pop Dawson’s farm, nursing a badly cut leg and bearing a deep mistrust of the farm’s harsh, industrial conditions. The novel follows Joe’s adjustment to farm life and how the community gradually accepts him, highlighting a stark contrast between the vibrant, unpredictable world of the circus and the orderly, pragmatic life on the farm.

First publish date: June 1950

Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure

Authors: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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