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1992
Mirette on the high wire
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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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Creators
Fiction
girls
girls, fiction
JUVENILE FICTION
children's fiction
books and reading
performing arts
Children's stories, American
fear
Social Themes
Boardinghouses
Blind
Europe
Determination (Personality trait)
Circus
People & Places
award:Caldecott_award
Caldecott Medal
lexile_range:601-700
lexile:660
Fear, fiction
grade:min:Preschool
age:max:8
grade:max:3
Circus, fiction
age:min:4
Ability
Daredevils
Learning
New Experience
collectionID:caldecott90
Gymnastics, fiction
Acrobats and acrobatics
Performance anxiety
Tightrope walking