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[TOMT] [Book] [2020s] Trying to track down a book (on behalf of my daughter) borrowed from from a UK library (around 2024/5). Details she remembers:

• Teen/YA fiction, medium length, yellow cover
• Present-day or near-future setting (not historical), but oddly there's a coal train in it
• Main character is a teenage girl with a younger sister; their mother died before the book starts and they're very poor
• The girl performs scarf dancing in a circus. At one point she falls and injures herself, and her sister takes over her act
• One sister is brilliant at sewing/repairing fabrics and circus costumes/one sister sold sweets at the circus
• The sisters escape the circus, with a scene stowing away on a coal train
• They end up in a seaside town
• There's an exhibition/house of "curiosities" featuring robots covered in fur (e.g. a massive robot dog)
• The girl frees a lot of people being held in the curiosities house, one of them is a middle-aged man, and they hide under the pier
• No idea how it ends...

Any ideas? Thanks!

Trying to track down a book (on behalf of my daughter) borrowed from from a UK library (around 2024/5). Details she remembers:

• Teen/YA fiction, medium length, yellow cover
• Present-day or near-future setting (not historical), but oddly there's a coal train in it
• Main character is a teenage girl with a younger sister; their mother died before the book starts and they're very poor
• The girl performs scarf dancing in a circus. At one point she falls and injures herself, and her sister takes over her act
• One sister is brilliant at sewing/repairing fabrics and circus costumes/one sister sold sweets at the circus
• The sisters escape the circus, with a scene stowing away on a coal train
• They end up in a seaside town
• There's an exhibition/house of "curiosities" featuring robots covered in fur (e.g. a massive robot dog)
• The girl frees a lot of people being held in the curiosities house, one of them is a middle-aged man, and they hide under the pier
• No idea how it ends...

Any ideas? Thanks!

Trying to track down a book (on behalf of my daughter) borrowed from from a UK library (around 2024/5). Details she remembers:

• Teen/YA fiction, medium length, yellow cover
• Present-day or near-future setting (not historical), but oddly there's a coal train in it
• Main character is a teenage girl with a younger sister; their mother died before the book starts and they're very poor
• The girl performs scarf dancing in a circus. At one point she falls and injures herself, and her sister takes over her act
• One sister is brilliant at sewing/repairing fabrics and circus costumes/one sister sold sweets at the circus
• The sisters escape the circus, with a scene stowing away on a coal train
• They end up in a seaside town
• There's an exhibition/house of "curiosities" featuring robots covered in fur (e.g. a massive robot dog)
• The girl frees a lot of people being held in the curiosities house, one of them is a middle-aged man, and they hide under the pier
• No idea how it ends...

Any ideas? Thanks!