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Mirette on the high wire

  • Emily Arnold McCully

3.88

8 ratings

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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

Genres

  • 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
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About the author

  • Emily Arnold McCully

    born 1 July 1939

    3.84

    19 ratings · 84 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Putnam Juvenile

    October 21, 1992

  • Edition cover

    Tandem Library

    October 1999

  • Edition cover

    Putnam Juvenile

    April 14, 1997

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Inc.

    1993

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G.P. Putnamʼs Sons, G.P. Putnams Sons

1992

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic

    1993

  • Edition cover

    Grimm Press Ltd.

    1992

  • Edition cover

    Kaléidoscope, Diffusion l'école des loisirs

    1994

  • Edition cover

    Chu ban

    Ge lin wen hua, Fa xing Mai tian chu ban you xian gong si

    1994