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Bond, Gwenda.
GIRL ON A WIRE
New York: Skyscape, 2014.
IL YA
ISBN 147784791X

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Imagine your family has hated another family for decades, but now you must face your fear and your enemies.  Jules Maroni desperately wants to be a famous tightrope walker and follow in her father’s footsteps, but her family won’t allow it.  Finances and a lucrative offer force the Amazing Maronis to join the Cirque American and be thrust into the spotlight alongside the Flying Garcias.  Jules, her red tutu, and her courage rise in fame until bad luck objects are discovered amongst the costumes of her family.  Will Jules be the first Maroni to fall from the tightrope? (Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, 2017)

SUBJECTS:     Aerialists -- Fiction. 

Circus -- Fiction. 

Mystery and detective stories. 

Mystery fiction. 

Teenage girls -- Fiction.


 
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