In a story set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris, Mirette, a young girl living in the Widow Gateau's boarding house, becomes the pupil of a former tightrope walker and, in exchange, gives her teacher a valuable lesson about faith and courage.

שם הספר
Mirette on the high wire
The grandma mix-up
Picnic
The Escape of Oney Judge
Squirrel and John Muir