Mirette on the High Wire-HB Roaring Brook Press for family

for family

inviting young readers on a sky-gazing adventure to imagine the secret lives of unicorns

These very different animals take off downstream

"A story to treasure

and with time

Mirette on the High Wire-HB Roaring Brook Press for familyOne 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