TY - BOOK AU - Gruen, Sara TI - Water for elephants : a novel SN - 9780340962725 (pbk.) : U1 - Senior Fiction G PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Hodder KW - Circus - Fiction KW - Orphans - Fiction KW - Depressions - 1929 - United States - Fiction KW - United States - History - 1919-1933 - Fiction N1 - Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006; When Jacob Jankowski - recently orphaned and suddenly adrift - jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters and misfits in the form of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a travelling circus struggling to survive the Great Depression ER -