Mirette on the High WireMirette on the High Wire

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 prose and own narration carries the listener over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.