INTERMEDIATE FICTION
(2) 4-6 Performers in a Victorian freak show are the heroes in Larwood's first novel. Sheba, a hirsute girl who can morph into wolf form, joins with a "monkey boy," a gigantic man, a Japanese ninja girl with cat's eyes, and Mama Rat to save London street urchins from a predatory group of inventors. Despite some weak writing, this has energy, color, and creative verve.

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