DiCamillo, Kate. <br/><br/>
The magician's elephant / 
Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. 
 - 201 p. :  ill ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Wilson's Children, October 2010.  Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010.  School Library Journal starred, August 2009.  Booklist starred, July 2009.  Library Media Connection starred, November 2009.  Publisher's Weekly, August 2009.  Kirkus Starred, August 2009.  New York Times, December 2009.  Horn Book, April 2010.  Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2009. 
<br/><br/> When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her. 
<br/><br/> 5.5  3-6  730L  Lexile  U  Fountas 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780763644109 (trade) 9780763646349 (trade) 9780329786472 (Follett bdg.) 0763644102 0763646342 0329786474 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009007359 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Orphans--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Missing children--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Elephants--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Orphans--Fiction.<br/>Lost children--Fiction.<br/>Elephants--Fiction.<br/>Brothers and sisters--Fiction.<br/>Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.<br/>Missing children--Fiction.<br/>Siblings--Fiction.<br/>Adventure fiction.<br/>Fantasy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Adventure fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.D5455  / Mag 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F DIC