Mirette on the high wire
About this book
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Subjects
- ability
- acrobats and acrobatics
- age:max:8
- age:min:4
- award:caldecott_award
- blind
- boardinghouses
- books and reading
- caldecott medal
- children's fiction
- children's stories, american
- circus
- circus, fiction
- collectionid:caldecott90
- daredevils
- determination (personality trait)
- europe
- fear
- fear, fiction
- fiction
- girls
- girls, fiction
- grade:max:3
- grade:min:preschool
- gymnastics, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- learning
- lexile:660
- lexile_range:601-700
- new experience
- people & places
- performance anxiety
- performing arts
- social themes
- tightrope walking