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Puffin Books, 1997-14-04

Mirette on the High Wire

Mirette on the High Wire

Emily Arnold McCully, Author

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9780698114432

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Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boarding house. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she sets out to show him that sometimes a student can be the greatest teacher of all. Full color.
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Keywords and Themes: Circus • Classics • Emotions & Feelings • Europe • JUV007000 • JUV030050 • JUV031010 • JUV039050 • JUV039090 • Juvenile Fiction • New Experience • Performing Arts • Places • Social Themes

Age Range • 4-8

Pages • 32

Subjects • Tightrope walking

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Classics • Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Circus • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience • Juvenile Fiction | Places | Europe

One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau--a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it.

But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini--master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.

Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.

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