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Eleven-year-old Jeremy Cabbage has been adopted more than once, and he's never really found a place to call home until now. Unfortunately, his new guardians are clownlike "cloons" whom the despotic baron plans to banish from the city. Elliott tackles issues of prejudice and politics with a minimum of heavy-handedness (though it's not absent) in this quirky adventure.