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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.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