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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Abrams, 2001
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781468302424 (electronic bk.) MWT12466307, 1468302426 (electronic bk.) 12466307
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Coney Island, 1939. On the eve of World War II, fifteen-year-old Harry Catzker spends his after-school hours on his bike, picking up betting slips from Coney Island carnival freaks for the local bookie and racing his imaginary sworn enemy, German Captain Ziegenbaum, whose ship menaces the coastline. As the lights of the Cyclone and Luna Park glow in the Coney Island night, Harry finds a surrogate family in the freaks and low-lifes
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