Hidden on the High Wire

2022-09-27 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Kathy Kacer
Release : 2022-09-27
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Hidden on the High Wire by : Kathy Kacer

Download or read book Hidden on the High Wire written by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2022-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene’s father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is a frightening new kind of balancing act, caught between the desire to perform and the need to hide—even in plain sight.

On the High Wire

2019-06-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Philippe Petit
Release : 2019-06-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis On the High Wire by : Philippe Petit

Download or read book On the High Wire written by Philippe Petit. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.

High-Wire Heartbreak

2022-01-01 Fiction

Author : Anna Schmidt
Release : 2022-01-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 393/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis High-Wire Heartbreak by : Anna Schmidt

Download or read book High-Wire Heartbreak written by Anna Schmidt. This book was released on 2022-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca d’Zan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and possibly death. A successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca’ d’Zan to research her next novel. Chloe’s fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. She’s heard hints of scandal—and perhaps larceny, but no details. Chloe’s grandmother—rumored to be Lucinda’s only offspring—was raised in an orphanage and never knew her mother. Intrigued as she is, Chloe has no intent of writing about Lucinda until she sees a poster featuring Lucinda as the star performer for a 70th birthday gala for John Ringling in May of 1936. From there the trail goes cold. Who was Lucinda and what happened to her?

Hiding Edith

2006-01-01 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Kathy Kacer
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Hiding Edith by : Kathy Kacer

Download or read book Hiding Edith written by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe house, risking their own safety by hiding the children from the Nazis in plain site, saving them from being captured and detained and most certainly saving their lives.

Starring Mirette and Bellini

2014-06-30 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Release : 2014-06-30
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Starring Mirette and Bellini by : Emily Arnold McCully

Download or read book Starring Mirette and Bellini written by Emily Arnold McCully. This book was released on 2014-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirette and the Great Bellini sweep all of Europe with their act on the high wire, but when Bellini is arrested after a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette is challenged to master the Death Walk to save him from prison. The sequel to the Caldecott Medal-winning Mirette on the High Wire.

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