Mirette on the High Wire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780399221309)

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.

Author: Emily Arnold McCully
ISBN-10: 0399221301
ISBN-13: 9780399221309
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 10/21/1992
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 11.32h x 8.22w x 0.38d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 6335 / Mirette on the High Wire

Award: Caldecott Medal - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/1992 pg. 609
Booklist 03/15/1993 pg. 1326
School Library Journal 10/01/1992 pg. 92
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1992 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
Publishers Weekly 10/26/1992