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Gerstein, Mordicai.
THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS
Brookfield, CT : Roaring Brook Press, 2003
IL K-3, RL 4.6
ISBN 0761328688
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Once there were two towers a quarter of a mile high standing side by side in New York City. A young French tight ropewalker named Philippe Petit saw the towers as a challenge. Secretly, he decided to stretch a wire between the two towers and walk across so the police would not stop him. Oh, what a dangerous thing to do! Although the towers are gone now, they remain a memory. Part of that memory is the story of how on August 7, 1974, a courageous young man named Philippe danced in the air between them.  (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2005-2006)
SUBJECTS:     Petit, Philippe, 1949-
                        Aerialists.
                        Tightrope walking.
                        World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)

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