Mirette on the High Wire

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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

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