Mirette on the high wire

By Emily Arnold McCully

Subjects: collectionID:caldecott90, age:max:8, Ability, Circus, fiction, Daredevils, grade:min:Preschool, Caldecott Medal, New Experience, lexile_range:601-700, Fear, Acrobats and acrobatics, Books and reading, grade:max:3, Social Themes, Girls, fiction, Girls, Children's stories, American, lexile:660, Fear, fiction, Performing arts, Blind, Fiction, Children's fiction, Performance anxiety, Boardinghouses, Gymnastics, fiction, People & Places, Determination (Personality trait), Juvenile fiction, Learning, Europe, Tightrope walking, Circus, age:min:4, award:Caldecott_award

Description: 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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.