Synopses & Reviews
A coming-of-age story filled with adventure and international intrigue When her mother dies, Brigitte is sent to live in Paris where she helps her aunt and uncle in their cafe. Her new life seems strange and interesting. When Brigitte befriends Paco, the young circus performer from the Cirque Medrano who poses for the temperamental Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, she is drawn into a web of international intrigue. Elaine Scott vividly recreates the drama and excitement that charged the intellectual world of avant-garde artists and writers in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century.
Synopsis
When Brigitte's mother dies, she is sent to live in Paris where she helps her aunt and uncle in their caf. As Brigitte adjusts to her new life, she becomes friendly with a family of acrobats in the local Cirque Medrano and is drawn into international intrigue that targets bohemian artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso and Apollinaire, and political insurgents. In this coming-of-age story, Brigitte's desire for adventure is more than sated, and she learns to find gratification in her new life with a new family.
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Elaine Scott is the author of many award-winning nonfiction children's books, including Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors (Viking) and Close Encounters: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope (Hyperion). Elaine lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Parker, and three cats named Laverne, Shirley, and Troy.