"Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. He has few friends, and is thrilled to discover an old-fashioned medicine show with performers who are his own age. Sullivan's excitement turns to dread, though, when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned inside the traveling show's caravan. His fears subside as he meets the other kids, and he wonders if his family would be better off without him and if being kidnapped--to work as a performing juggler--might be the best thing that has ever happened to him."--From publisher.