A Biographical Note
HORACE A. W. TABOR, a mining tycoon immortalized in The Ballad of Baby Doe, spent some of his millions building the Tabor Grand Opera House in Denver. He sent his architect, George King, to Europe for inspiration, and imported cherry wood from Japan, marble from Italy, cloth from France. The seats were cushioned, the auditorium gaslit, the curtain hand painted with a landscape of ancient Rome.
What future jobs Mr. King undertook are less well recorded, but he would surely not have let the skills and knowledge that he had gained in Denver go to waste. Who else would some rich benefactor choose, if he wanted to make the gift of theater to a town of people dear to his heart?
About the Author
GERALDINE McCAUGHREAN is the Printz Award-winning author of THE WHITE DARKNESS. She has been honored with England’s most prestigious children’s book award, the Carnegie Medal, and is the only three-time winner ever of the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. She also wrote PETER PAN IN SCARLET, the first official sequel to the treasured masterpiece PETER PAN, and the critically acclaimed THE DEATH-DEFYING PEPPER ROUX. Geraldine lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband and actress daughter. You can visit her online at www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk.
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Other Books by
Geraldine McCaughrean
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
The White Darkness
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Stop the Train!
Not the End of the World
The Kite Rider
The Stones Are Hatching
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Copyright
The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen
Copyright © 2010 by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCaughrean, Geraldine.
The glorious adventures of the Sunshine Queen / Geraldine McCaughrean. — 1st American ed.
p. cm. Sequel to: Stop the train!
Summary: When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
ISBN 978-0-06-200806-0 (trade bdg.)
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Theater—Fiction. 3. Paddle steamers—Fiction. 4. Missouri River—History—19th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M4784133Gl 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2010021958
CIP
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EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062077080
11 12 13 14 15 LP/RRDB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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