Sullivan Mintz is the type of kid you don’t notice.  He’s a perfect target for a bully.  Plus, he lives in an old folks’ rest home with his younger sister that his parents run.  Not such of an exciting life.  Until one night when he sees a traveling show performing in a field.  He and his sister, Jinny, go and watch and Sullivan is mesmerized by the acts put on by kids around his own age.  He is drawn back a second time, during which Master Melville invites him for a third visit.  He lies to his parents and sneaks out to the show and during an act where a volunteer from the audience is required, Sullivan comes up and is put into a box and disappears.  He is given something, I’m not quite sure, to make him sleep and when he awakens he finds himself in the coach with the other kids quite far from home.  That’s how easy it was to kidnap him.  He also becomes a performer and his lame attempt at escape is foiled.  Ginny and an eighty-one-year-old guest of the rest home, Manny, go on a quest trying to find clues as to his whereabouts.  Life is no longer so boring, people actually listen to him and care about him now.  He finds that if he were to go back home, he’d miss his new family and friends.  I thought this book was well written and had great characterization.  The only fault I would find with is the book jacket art.  It seems to imply that the story takes place a long time ago when it’s actually a contemporary story.