| Mirette on the High Wire Contributor(s): McCully, Emily Arnold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0399221301 ISBN-13: 9780399221309 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: Mirette lives in a boarding house surrounded by actors, dancers, jugglers and mimes. Her life is filled with exciting stories and fascinating people. None as magical as the stranger Mirette discovers crossing the courtyard on air--a tightrope walker. Mirette becomes the stranger's pupil and learns to walk the wire. Features brilliant watercolor and gouache paintings, reminiscent of the French Impressionists. 1993 Caldecott Medal winner. |
| 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: 0.38" H x 8.22" W x 11.32" (0.92 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| 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. |