| Mirette on the High Wire Contributor(s): McCully, Emily Arnold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0698114434 ISBN-13: 9780698114432 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Circus - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings |
| Dewey: E |
| LCCN: 91036324 |
| Lexile Measure: 660 |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 7.98" W x 10.23" (0.28 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Catalog Heading - Classics - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 6335 Reading Level: 3.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |