Everything you need to understand or teach The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel.
Will Everett arrives at the train station, Farewell, waiting for his father, James, to return from laying down rails. Will runs into a circus worker, Maren, who notices that he’s a skilled artist. She takes a Sasquatch tooth that his father had given him, intending to return it when he sees her at the circus. Will never makes it to the circus though, as he runs into a rich man...